Local Alcohol Profiles for England Responsible statistician and product lead: Mark Cook For queries relating to this document, please contact: lape@phe.gov.uk February 2019 https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/local-alcohol-profiles

Background The Local Alcohol Profiles for England provide information for local government, health organisations, commissioners and other agencies to monitor the impact of alcohol on local communities, and to monitor the services and initiatives that have been put in place to prevent and reduce the harmful impact of alcohol. The indicators are split into 7 domains; Mortality Alcohol Related Conditions Hospital Admissions Other Impacts Hospital Admissions by Age-Group Treatment Consumption and Availability They are updated quarterly in February, May, August and November (provided new data are available). A list of indicators updated, for the most recent and previous releases can be found in the Local Alcohol Profiles for England collection within www.gov.uk. Local Alcohol Profiles for England

Front page 1 Click here to enter the profiles and see the data Latest updates are summarised on the front page Local Alcohol Profiles for England

Domains Can choose to view a list of key indicators or select from 7 domains Local Alcohol Profiles for England

Overview RAG charts highlight significant differences from the England average Local Alcohol Profiles for England

Compare indicators Choose 2 indicators to compare on scatterplot Hover on a point to show the values Local Alcohol Profiles for England

Map England map showing RAG as per overview Chart below ranks the selected area type and shows the values and confidence intervals Local Alcohol Profiles for England

Trend Can show or hide confidence intervals on chart Table of values show data for selected County & UA, corresponding region and England Comparison of selected area with England trend Local Alcohol Profiles for England

Compare areas Look at recent trend data Compare against areas in same region Local Alcohol Profiles for England

Inequalities data – England only Chart identifies England value when all groups are included Available inequalities breakdowns shown on right hand side Local Alcohol Profiles for England

Definitions and Download Details of why the indicator is included in the profiles, data sources, methodology, caveats, notes and links can be found in the ‘Definitions’ tab The data for all indicators and time periods can be downloaded into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet including confidence intervals Local Alcohol Profiles for England

Survey datasets we use for alcohol Health Survey for England Annual household survey, 8k adults surveyed each year Questions on usual drinking and drinking on the heaviest drinking day in the previous week Can combine alcohol consumption data with information about other risk factors, health conditions and a wide range of demographic information ONS Opinion survey Annual GB survey, 8k adults surveyed Asks questions about drinking on the heaviest drinking day in the previous week Long running time series is available Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey Runs every 7 years (last survey was 2014) 7500 adults in England surveyed Questions include the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and enable estimates to be produced of alcohol dependence. Local Alcohol Profiles for England