National Health Interview Survey, 1988: Alcohol Supplement

The basic purpose of the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) is to obtain information about the amount and distribution of illness, its effects in terms of disability and chronic impairments, and the kinds of health services people receive. Person variables include sex, age, race, marital status, veteran status, education, income, industry and occupation codes, and limits on activity. This Alcohol Supplement contains information on liquor consumption patterns: whether the respondent never drank alcoholic beverages or occasionally drank them, whether he or she was a former drinker or a present drinker, and the amount of alcohol consumed. The survey also elicited respondents' views on alcohol consumption, relationship to a drinker, reasons for not drinking, and ways that alcohol consumption affected everyday life.