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Survey data remain a crucial means for monitoring alcohol consumption, but there has been limited work done to ensure that surveys adequately capture changes in per‐capita consumption in Australia. In this study, we explore how trends in consumption from two major Australian surveys compare with an official measure of per‐capita consumption between 2001 and 2014 and examine age‐specific trends in drinking.

Data were from five waves of the cross‐sectional National Health Survey (total n = 113 279) and 12 waves of the longitudinal Household Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Study (average n = 12 347). Overall and age‐specific estimates of annual alcohol consumption were derived and compared with official per‐capita consumption and previous analyses of the National Drug Strategy Household Survey.

In terms of overall consumption …