Source : 2009 Vanuatu National Population and Housing Census
Analysis:
I find it interesting that the male age group peak drinkership is between 25-29, when 66% of men are hitting up the nakamal, when the peak drinkership for women is in their 40s. This makes sense as the women you typically find at nakamals are older and...well, we'll save that commentary for another time. Maybe kava trends follow sexual peaks. But nothing surprising with this graph in terms of what I have observed after drinking kava for more than five years now.
However, this question does not look at frequency of drinking kava. It simply asks if one drinks kava. You could be someone who drinks only on the weekends or special occasions but are grouped in with the kavaholics who drink until 2 or 3 in the morning every day and sleep through to the afternoon. I think that survey questions about kava use should be focusing on frequency and potentially average amounts drunk. We should be interested in how kava affects society, so a simple percentage variable won't get the job done. Also, I would like to look more closely at why less older people drink kava. Could it be cultural (many older men are conscious of the current abuse of the kava custom) or is it more a result of the health effects of kava?
Analysis:
I find it interesting that the male age group peak drinkership is between 25-29, when 66% of men are hitting up the nakamal, when the peak drinkership for women is in their 40s. This makes sense as the women you typically find at nakamals are older and...well, we'll save that commentary for another time. Maybe kava trends follow sexual peaks. But nothing surprising with this graph in terms of what I have observed after drinking kava for more than five years now.
However, this question does not look at frequency of drinking kava. It simply asks if one drinks kava. You could be someone who drinks only on the weekends or special occasions but are grouped in with the kavaholics who drink until 2 or 3 in the morning every day and sleep through to the afternoon. I think that survey questions about kava use should be focusing on frequency and potentially average amounts drunk. We should be interested in how kava affects society, so a simple percentage variable won't get the job done. Also, I would like to look more closely at why less older people drink kava. Could it be cultural (many older men are conscious of the current abuse of the kava custom) or is it more a result of the health effects of kava?
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