Investigating the growing trend of non-drinking among young people; analysis of repeated cross-sectional surveys in England 2005–2015

Table 2 Trends in the proportion (%) of non-drinkers among social and demographic sub-groups, HSE2005–2015^a

	Year											N	p-value trend	% Change 2005–2015
	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	N	p-value trend	% Change 2005–2015
All	18	23	18	23	24	26	23	27	28	31	29	9699	p < 0.001	61
Age group
16–17	28	31	26	38	42	33	38	44	44	50	48	2294	p < 0.001	71
18–24	15	21	16	17	18	24	20	23	23	25	24	7405	p < 0.001	60
Sex
Males	16	24	14	21	20	25	20	26	27	29	25	4368	p < 0.001	56
Females	20	23	23	24	28	27	27	28	29	32	33	5331	p < 0.001	65
Ethnicity
White	14	13	11	15	15	18	17	19	17	23	20	8168	p < 0.001	43
Non-white	54	72	49	59	69	61	57	63	67	66	68	1531	0.421	26
Region
North	17	21	19	18	28	23	23	21	29	31	30	3258	p < 0.001	76
South	19	24	18	25	22	27	24	29	28	31	28	6441	p < 0.001	47
Urban/Rural locality
Urban	19	25	20	24	26	27	24	29	29	31	32	7871	p < 0.001	68
Town/Village	16	14	9^a	13	12	21	23	16	19	28	26	1828	p < 0.001	63
Area deprivation
Least deprived	13	17	15	16	19	19	18	21	20	24	23	5205	p < 0.001	81
Most deprived	25	31	22	30	30	34	32	35	37	38	36	4494	p < 0.001	42
Household social class
Managerial and Professional	16	18	12^b	16	18	20	20	20	23	25	25	3168	p < 0.001	54
Intermediate	17	17	18	25	35	30	28	22	24	33	33	1805	p < 0.001	94
Routine manual	19	27	21	25	23	28	24	32	33	34	25	3938	0.001	28
Educational status
Full-time education	23	29	25	28	26	30	27	33	33	38	36	4360	p < 0.001	57
Not in FTE	14	18	12	17	22	21	20	22	23	23	23	5326	p < 0.001	64
Employment status
Employed	9	13	9	14	17	17	13	15	19	19	18	4103	p < 0.001	100
Unemployed	26	32	26	29	28	31	30	34	34	39	38	5552	p < 0.001	46

^aFigures in bold indicate statistical significantly different to 2005, for 95% confidence intervals see Additional file 1: Table S2
^bAlternative Baseline year, where no difference found with 2005

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