THE 1993 GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY .1. ALCOHOL-USE IN CANADA

Rates and correlates of alcohol use are reported from the 1993 General Social Survey, a household telephone survey of 10,385 Canadians carri ed out by Statistics Canada. Continuing a recent trend, alcohol use ha s declined. The portrait of the Canadian who is most likely to drink a nd drink heavily is that of a young adult male who is not married, rel atively well-off, and rarely or never attends religious services. In a multivariate analysis of the combined impact of sociodemographic fact ors on drinking and drinking levels, it was found that the frequency o f religious attendance and age were the strongest predictors of curren t drinking. Gender was the strongest predictor of volume of alcohol co nsumption, while religious attendance, age, marital status and employm ent status were also significant predictors.