This paper is based on the first sessions of the same name that were held on May 12, 1997
at the International Workshop on Consumption Measures and Models for Use in Policy …

Improving the measurement of consumption has remained one of the most elusive goals of
alcohol research. Despite decades of methodological re-search (as summarized in Alanko …

This chapter lays out the methods of measuring alcohol consumption that have been used in
survey studies of the general population of the United States and discusses their …

This paper reviews methodological issues in assessing volume and pattern of alcohol
consumption. It focuses on three measures developed at the Alcohol Research Group (ARG) …

Various methodological issues influence the measurement of alcohol consumption in
surveys. One factor is the reference period for which questions are asked—that is, whether …

This article is an overview of different approaches to measuring alcohol consumption: self-
reports and objective measures such as blood alcohol concentration (BAC) and aggregate …

This article compares five indices of alcohol consumption in a general population survey
conducted in 1985 in the Netherlands. Self-reports of consumption were obtained with a …

Data were used from the 1990 US national alcohol survey to compare two volume measures
of alcohol consumption: usual quantity/frequency (QF) and graduated frequency (GF). The …

Objective: Eight different approaches to measuring alcohol consumption were compared in
terms of average daily volume of ethanol intake, selected percentiles of the volume …

Simple calculation rules are providing for converting alcohol consumption data among four
standard units currently used by researchers and educators in the USA, Canada, the UK …