@article{ref1,
title="Estimating changes in unrecorded alcohol consumption in Norway using indicators of harm",
journal="Addiction",
year="1998",
author="Norstrom, T.",
volume="93",
number="10",
pages="1531-1538",
abstract="AIM: To assess the value of using indicators of alcohol-related harm to estimate changes in unrecorded per capita consumption of alcohol. DESIGN: Unrecorded consumption was estimated from the discrepancy between the observed changes in a number of alcohol-related harm indicators and the changes that would be expected from changes in recorded consumption. The results were compared with estimates of unrecorded consumption from survey data. MEASUREMENTS: Four indicators of alcohol-related harm were used: alcohol-related mortality, assaults, drunken driving, and suicide. Estimates of unrecorded consumption from survey data for five different years were used as benchmarks. FINDINGS: The best performing indicators were alcohol-related mortality, suicide and assaults, in that order. Combining these indicators yielded a prediction error averaging 12% in comparison with the benchmarks. CONCLUSIONS: The method seems worthy of further applications, but it should be regarded as a supplement rather than as a substitute for other approaches.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0965-2140",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}