A survey of 6,000 households across the country has found that in the 15 to 49 age group, 87% of males had consumed alcohol at some point in their lives, compared with 60% of females.
This is according to the recently released findings of the Guyana Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2014, which was conducted by the Bureau of Statistics, the Public Health Ministry and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
The survey found that 13% of males surveyed in the age group had never had an alcoholic drink, while 63% of males had at least one drink of alcohol on one or more days in the month preceding the period in which they were surveyed.