The Gender Pint Gap Revisited FINAL - Flipbook - Page 14
THE GENDER PINT GAP: REVISITED/DRINKING HABITS
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2023: Which one of the following alcoholic drinks do you drink most
often?
2023
Age
Women age 18
- 24 year are
most likely to
choose beer
over other
drinks (a
younger
demographic
than 2018).
Women age 55
+ are the least
likely to choose
beer over other
drinks, the
same as 2018
(7%).
Regionality
Women in the
North are
most likely to
choose beer
over other
drinks.
Women in
Scotland are
least likely to
choose beer
over other
drinks.
Social
Grade
There is a
slight
variation
between
social
grades.
C2DE
women are
2% more
likely than
ABC1’s to
choose beer
over other
drinks.
2023 in more detail:
11% of women age 18-to-24-year said they chose beer most often, over-indexing against the rest of the sample.
However, full-time students who would normally be within this age group under index and are least likely to choose
beer (6%) - though students are among most frequent beer drinkers (23% drinking once a week or more).
Women in London across all age groups drink beer most often with almost 12% of respondents in this region choosing it
over other alcoholic categories compared with just 5% of women in Scotland – more insights into this geographical split
later in the report.
8% of women say they drink beer most often, falling 1% in the past five years, compared to 38% of men, but beer is still
the third most popular choice for women after wine and spirits.
Cocktails have risen in popularity over the past five years for women.
