European Health Survey  
CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
Frequency of heavy drinking of alcohol in the last 12 months by sex and social class based on the reference person's occupation. Population aged 15 years old and over that had consumed sometime.
Units: thousands of persons

	TOTAL	Daily or almost daily	From 1 to 4 days a week	From 1 to 3 days a month	Less than once a month	Never	No data recorded	
Both sexes	
    TOTAL	26,175.8	159.0	825.8	2,557.8	4,976.9	17,598.1	58.3	
    I	3,443.6	15.0	104.7	306.0	633.8	2,374.3	9.8	
    II	2,348.0	9.6	70.5	234.7	511.7	1,516.0	5.5	
    III	5,250.4	35.2	181.1	553.5	936.8	3,538.3	5.5	
    IV	3,865.4	22.2	99.0	332.7	725.2	2,675.3	11.1	
    V	7,820.6	48.3	264.3	769.0	1,505.3	5,214.6	19.3	
    VI	3,028.9	23.6	87.6	295.6	592.5	2,022.4	7.1	
    No data recorded	418.8	5.2	18.5	66.3	71.6	257.1	0.0	
Men	
    TOTAL	14,691.5	125.3	619.8	1,804.3	3,209.7	8,902.8	29.7	
    I	1,867.7	5.2	68.5	219.5	378.2	1,193.0	3.2	
    II	1,278.8	9.6	58.3	156.0	304.5	744.8	5.5	
    III	2,835.6	28.1	132.0	356.6	603.4	1,712.3	3.2	
    IV	2,293.6	20.4	78.1	243.0	490.8	1,456.4	4.9	
    V	4,597.0	42.1	190.0	584.7	1,008.5	2,764.2	7.5	
    VI	1,661.6	15.6	77.3	210.0	389.9	963.5	5.4	
    No data recorded	157.2	4.3	15.6	34.5	34.3	68.5	0.0	
Women	
    TOTAL	11,484.3	33.8	205.9	753.5	1,767.2	8,695.3	28.6	
    I	1,575.9	9.8	36.2	86.4	255.6	1,181.3	6.6	
    II	1,069.3	0.0	12.2	78.7	207.2	771.2	0.0	
    III	2,414.8	7.1	49.1	197.0	333.3	1,825.9	2.3	
    IV	1,571.8	1.7	20.9	89.7	234.4	1,219.0	6.2	
    V	3,223.6	6.2	74.2	184.2	496.8	2,450.4	11.8	
    VI	1,367.3	8.1	10.3	85.7	202.7	1,058.9	1.7	
    No data recorded	261.6	0.9	2.9	31.8	37.3	188.6	0.0	
Notes:
1) In this table an intensive alcohol cosumer is considered to be a man that consumes in the period  From 4 to 6 hours more than 6 units of standard drink 60 g of pure alcohol and to that woman that cosumes more  5 units of standard drink 50 g of pure alcohol at the same time.

 I - Directors and managers of establishments with 10 or more wage earners and professionals traditionally associated with university graduate degrees.
 II. Directors and managers of establishments with less than 10 wage earners, professionals traditionally associated with university degrees and other technical support professionals. Athletes and artists.
 III. Intermediate occupations and self-employed workers.
 IV - Supervisors and workers in skilled technical occupations.
 V - Skilled primary sector workers and other semi-skilled workers.
 VI. Non-skilled workers.

 The symbol '.'  shall be deemed as datum which cannot be given due to an insufficient sample
 The symbol '..' shall be deemed as datum which is not collected for that classification of the table
 The data corresponding to cells with less than 35 thousand persons must be considered with caution, as they may be affected by a high degree of sampling error
Source: National Statistics Institute