Socio‐Economic Determinants of UK Alcohol Consumption, 1956–79

This note considers UK pure alcohol consumption per head as a function of real disposable income, real prices, the numbers of retail outlets, the level of television and press advertising, the number of deaths in the population, inflation, unemployment and economic prospects. The technique used is ordinary least squares regression with the variables in first difference form, in order to minimise serial correlation. Annual data for 1956–79 is used. For detailed definitions of the variables used see McGuinness and Kitchin.