alc_drink_now_allages: Whether someone drinks and frequency of drinking

In STAPM/hseclean: Health Survey Data Wrangling

Whether someone drinks and frequency of drinking

Description

Clean the data on whether someone is a current drinker (drank in last 12 months) and if they did drink how frequently they did so. Several definitions are used for youth drinking (< 16 years).

Usage

alc_drink_now_allages(data)

Arguments

data	Data table - the survey dataset.

Details

Combines information from adults and children. In general, someone is classed as a drinker even if they only reported drinking once or twice a year - which is a less strict definition than used by some other surveys. Any missing data is supplemented by responses to if currently drinks or if always non-drinker.

For youth drinking, variables are also created for: drinks at least once a week, drinks at least once a month, and drank in the last week.

Note: The Scottish Health Survey dataset does not have drinking data on children younger than 16 years old.

Value

drinks_now

Drank at all in the last 12 months (drinker, non_drinker).

drink_freq_7d

Frequency of drinking, expressed in terms of the expected number of drinking ocassions per week (numerical variable calculated from categorical responses to how frequently someone drinks).

adrinkweek

Youth drinks at least once a week (yes, no).

adrinkmonth

Youth drinks at least once a month (yes, no).

adrinklastweek

Youth drank in the last week (yes, no).

Examples

## Not run: 
data <- read_2017()
data <- clean_age(data)
data <- alc_drink_now_allages(data)

## End(Not run)

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