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Table 1 Proportion of respondents selecting conditions where alcohol consumption increases cancer risk, total, and by country, using weighted dataa

From: How much do Europeans know about the link between alcohol use and cancer? Results from an online survey in 14 countries

All countries, N = 19,601

Total

Austria

Belgium

Estonia

France

Germany

Ireland

Latvia

Lithuania

Netherlands

Norway

Portugal

Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

p-valueb

N

19,601

1356

885

969

1876

2565

923

1386

511

758

1126

2345

1144

2826

931

 

Cancer

53%

55%

60%

43%

72%

65%

60%

26%

41%

60%

48%

45%

39%

56%

52%

< 0.001

Heart disease

68%

70%

76%

77%

82%

77%

68%

69%

73%

67%

56%

50%

56%

66%

68%

< 0.001

Liver disease

90%

96%

89%

93%

89%

95%

93%

89%

90%

92%

89%

81%

91%

87%

93%

< 0.001

Respiratory disease

11%

8%

10%

14%

16%

13%

19%

8%

10%

11%

5%

11%

8%

14%

6%

< 0.001

Don’t know

5%

2%

4%

5%

4%

2%

5%

6%

2%

6%

9%

9%

6%

7%

4%

< 0.001

None

2%

1%

1%

1%

1%

2%

0%

2%

4%

1%

1%

4%

2%

1%

2%

< 0.001

Female breast cancer*

15%

15%

17%

13%

24%

24%

28%

7%

13%

23%

10%

7%

9%

13%

15%

< 0.001

Liver cancer*

50%

51%

57%

41%

69%

62%

58%

25%

39%

56%

42%

43%

37%

53%

47%

< 0.001

Colon cancer*

39%

44%

47%

29%

55%

53%

44%

20%

28%

46%

34%

23%

30%

39%

38%

< 0.001

Oral cancer*

28%

28%

35%

18%

44%

41%

36%

10%

19%

33%

15%

21%

25%

28%

20%

< 0.001

Skin cancer*

6%

6%

5%

6%

12%

9%

7%

3%

6%

7%

2%

3%

2%

6%

3%

< 0.001

Don’t know*

2%

2%

1%

2%

2%

2%

1%

1%

1%

2%

3%

1%

1%

1%

4%

< 0.001

None*

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

1%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

0%

< 0.001

  1. * Only respondents selecting “cancer’ were asked to respond to the question about specific cancers, percentage represents proportion of all respondents
  2. a Weighted by age, gender, and education on country level based on the population distribution of EUROSTAT
  3. b Chi-squared tests for differences in proportions were conducted to assess statistical significance. P-values below 0.05 are considered statistically significant