U.S. Alcohol Consumption Trends by State and Beverage Type, 1977-2016

Per capita ethanol consumption data for persons aged 14+ in all U.S. states and Washington D.C. from 1977 to 2016. The dataset includes total consumption and separate figures for beer, wine, and spirits, originally compiled by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. It was scraped from a PDF report and formatted for analysis by Jacob Kaplan.

Use Cases

• Modeling temporal trends in alcohol consumption based on 40 years of data
• Comparing regional and state-level drinking patterns based on geographic coverage
• Analyzing shifts in beverage preference (beer, wine, spirits) over time
• Estimating public health and economic impacts based on per capita ethanol figures

Strengths

• Covers 40 years of data (1977-2016)
• Includes data for all 50 U.S. states and Washington D.C.
• Provides consumption breakdown by three beverage categories (beer, wine, spirits)
• Original methodology report from NIAAA is included for reference

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Provenance

Source

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) report by Sarah P. Haughwout and Dr. Megan E. Slater

Collection Method

Data scraped from a PDF table and cleaned using R code

Time Range

1977-2016

Geography

United States (national, regional, and state-level, including Washington D.C.)