Table 1 Characteristics of alcohol baskets and of the customers who bought thema in the LoCard data
From: Alcohol expenditure in grocery stores and their associations with tobacco and food expenditures
| Â | Clusters of shopping baskets based on expenditure on alcohol | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No alcoholic beverages | Two beers | Two ciders | Beer for 15€ | Cider for 15€, some beer | Beer for 30€ | Beer for 50€ | Alcohol for almost 100€, half beer, half cider | Beer for almost 100€ | |
Abbreviation | No-alco | Two-Beers | Two-Ciders | Beer-15 | Cider-15 | Beer-30 | Beer-50 | Alco-100 | Beer-100 |
Approximate volume of alcoholic beveragesb | – | 2 * 500 ml | 2 * 330 ml | 12 * 330 ml | 5 * 500 ml | 15 * 500 ml | 24 * 500 ml | 40 * 500 ml | 100 * 300 ml |
Number of baskets (%) | 1,315,219 (86.1) | 120,578 (7.9) | 38,687 (2.5) | 35,859 (2.4) | 11,863 (0.8) | 4000 (0.3) | 612 (0.04) | 262 (0.02) | 137 (0.01) |
Gender, % | |||||||||
 -Men | 32.2 | 52 | 28.6 | 56.8 | 29.5 | 57.6 | 58.2 | 50.0 | 73.0 |
 -Women | 67.8 | 48 | 71.4 | 43.2 | 70.5 | 42.4 | 41.8 | 50.0 | 27.0 |
Mean age, years (range) | 45.9 (16–90) | 48.7 (18–70) | 44.7 (18–84) | 47.8 (18–84) | 44.1 (18–84) | 49.0 (18–81) | 49.6 (18–73) | 44.9 (18–72) | 49.3 (18–72) |
Age category, yearsc | |||||||||
  ≤ 34 | 27.3 | 18.4 | 27.7 | 17.8 | 26.2 | 17.8 | 16.2 | 24.8 | 19.7 |
 35–46 | 24.3 | 23.6 | 26.4 | 26.5 | 28.7 | 23.4 | 22.4 | 23.7 | 19.0 |
 47–58 | 24.5 | 31.1 | 27.2 | 33.7 | 29.5 | 31.1 | 34.6 | 36.6 | 32.8 |
  ≥ 59 | 23.9 | 26.8 | 18.7 | 22.0 | 15.6 | 27.8 | 26.8 | 14.9 | 28.5 |