Consumption of alcohol and tobacco

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Purpose and history
The purpose of the statistics on consumption of alcohol and tobacco is to describe the consumption, sales and cross-frontier purchase of alcoholic beverages and tobacco.

Description of Contents
The statistic show the consumption of alcoholic beverages distributed on beer, wine, spirits and Alco pops as well as the consumption of tobacco. The consumption is composed of the domestic dutiable sales and cross-frontier purchases, where the Danes purchase abroad is added and foreigners consumption in Denmark is deducted.

The dutiable sale is the sale of alcoholic beverages and tobacco to retail stores.

From 2005 the figures are adjusted for the moderation settlement for beer.

Alco pops are separated from the alcohol type they are based on from 2006.013f. Figures for sales and consequently also for consumption before and after 2006 are thus not directly comparable. This is especially the case for spirits.

Statistical Concepts
The statistics monitors the consumption of alcoholic beverages and tobacco in Denmark.

The primary variables are:

• Consumption of pure alcohol which is the volume of alcohol sold converted to an alcohol percentage of 100 added to the volume of cross-frontier purchase converted to an alcohol percentage of 100 as well.
• Consumption of alcohol which is the volume of sold alcoholic beverages: Wine, lager equivalents, spirits and Alco pops, added to the estimated volume of the cross-frontier purchase of these alcoholic beverages.
• Consumption of tobacco which is the volume of sold tobacco products added to the estimated volume of the cross-frontier purchase.
• Sales of pure alcohol which is the volume of sold alcohol converted to an alcohol percentage at 100.
• Sales of alcohol which is the volume of sold spirits, wine, lager equivalents and Alco pops.
• Sales of tobacco which is the volume of sold tobacco products.
• Cross-frontier purchase of pure alcohol which is net volume of cross-frontier purchase of alcohol converted to an alcohol percentage of 100. In the convertion from volumes of alcohol sold to volumes of alcohol with a percentage of 100 for the cross-frontier purchases it is assumed that the composition of cross-frontier purchases is identical to the composition of domestic sales. In other words it is assumed that the average alcohol percentage of cross-frontier purchase of e.g. beer is the same as the average alcohol percentage in the domestic sales which is assumed to be that of a lager equivalent namely 4.6 percentage.
• Cross-frontier purchase of alcohol which is net volume of cross-frontier purchase of spirits, wine, beer and Alco pops. Before 2006 cross-frontier purchase of Alco pops is included in the figures for cross-frontier purchase of spirits.
• Cross-frontier purchase of tobacco which is net volume of cross-frontier purchase of tobacco products.

A lager equivalent is defined as a beer with an alcohol percentage of 4.6.

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Releases

Last updated:	8 July 2009
Scheduled releases:	8 July 2010 for the period 2009

Contact

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