Alcohol use data
This includes data relating to alcohol use.
Data is available from the most recent year collected. Some of the data in this section is sourced from the Canadian Community Health Survey. Canadian Community Health Survey data from 2015 onwards should not be compared to data from previous years.
Summary of student substance use report
Provides data about:
Students who used substances in the past year, including alcohol, high-caffeine energy drinks, electronic and tobacco cigarettes, cannabis, opioids and other drugs.
Grade first tried alcohol among students grades 7 to 12
Provides data about:
- Alcohol use
- Frequency of drinking
- Low-risk drinking
- Alcohol use among students
- Usual number of drinks among students
- Binge drinking among population 12 years and older (2015/2016)
- Binge drinking among population 12 years and older (up to 2013/2014)
- Getting drunk among students grades 7 to 12
- Binge drinking among students grades 7 to 12
- World Health Organization alcohol use disorders identification test indicators among students grades 7 to 12
- Playing drinking games among students grades 7 to 12
- Alcohol and energy drink use among students grades 7 to 12
- Alcohol and cannabis use among students grades 7 to 12
- Alcohol use during pregnancy
- Drunk or high on school property among students grades 7 to 12
- Drinking and driving among population 16 years and older (drivers) and 12 years and older (passengers)
- Driving under the influence among students grades 7 to 12 (passengers) and 10 to 12 (drivers)
- Perceived risk of harm associated with binge drinking alcohol