Lifestyles and preventive practices. Absolute figures 
Average age at beginning to consume alcoholic beverages regularly, by sex and Autonomous Community. Average and standard deviation. Population aged 16 years old and over that consumes or has consumed alcoholic beverages at some point in time
Units: average and standard deviation

	Average	Standard deviation	
BOTH SEXES	
    Total	18.92	5.49	
    Andalucía	18.68	4.62	
    Aragón	18.54	5.18	
    Asturias (Principado de)	19.24	6.48	
    Balears (Illes)	18.77	5.53	
    Canarias	19.64	5.45	
    Cantabria	18.14	3.51	
    Castilla y León	18.50	4.23	
    Castilla-La Mancha	18.51	4.47	
    Cataluña	18.53	5.34	
    Comunitat Valenciana	19.98	6.75	
    Extremadura	18.43	4.80	
    Galicia	19.07	5.93	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	18.86	5.92	
    Murcia (Región de)	18.43	4.40	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	20.07	7.77	
    País Vasco	18.76	5.08	
    Rioja (La)	18.42	4.87	
    Ceuta and Melilla	18.80	5.13	
MALES	
    Total	17.95	4.15	
    Andalucía	17.85	3.20	
    Aragón	17.57	4.01	
    Asturias (Principado de)	17.88	4.68	
    Balears (Illes)	17.85	4.98	
    Canarias	18.17	2.70	
    Cantabria	17.59	2.36	
    Castilla y León	17.66	3.21	
    Castilla-La Mancha	17.94	3.99	
    Cataluña	17.78	3.96	
    Comunitat Valenciana	18.48	4.76	
    Extremadura	17.84	4.11	
    Galicia	18.04	4.59	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	17.86	4.90	
    Murcia (Región de)	17.52	3.22	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	18.51	6.05	
    País Vasco	18.35	4.93	
    Rioja (La)	17.72	3.33	
    Ceuta and Melilla	18.43	4.50	
FEMALES	
    Total	20.24	6.69	
    Andalucía	19.81	5.85	
    Aragón	19.79	6.14	
    Asturias (Principado de)	21.15	7.99	
    Balears (Illes)	19.83	5.93	
    Canarias	21.68	7.32	
    Cantabria	19.05	4.70	
    Castilla y León	19.82	5.19	
    Castilla-La Mancha	19.41	4.99	
    Cataluña	19.68	6.76	
    Comunitat Valenciana	21.69	8.15	
    Extremadura	19.49	5.69	
    Galicia	20.33	7.04	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	20.20	6.84	
    Murcia (Región de)	19.66	5.37	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	22.04	9.15	
    País Vasco	19.30	5.23	
    Rioja (La)	19.50	6.39	
    Ceuta and Melilla	19.30	5.83	
Notes:
1) Population aged 16 years old and over that consumes or has consumed alcoholic  beverages at some point in time
The symbol '.' shall be deemed as data which cannot be provided since it may be affected by sampling errors.
 The symbol '..' shall be deemed as data which is not collected.
 The symbol '...' shall be deemed as an 'error of division by zero'.
Source: Ministry of Health and Consumption and INE