Research Article
Changes in Alcohol Behaviour among Adolescents in North-West Russia between 1995 and 2004
Table 1
First experience of alcohol consumption (only for alcohol consumers).
| First experience of alcohol consumption | Boys
| Girls
| 1995 | 2004 | 1995 | 2004 | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % |
| 6th grade or earlier | 30 | 23 | 53 | 36 | 29 | 20 | 18 | 12 | 7th grade | 23 | 18 | 33 | 22 | 33 | 23 | 41 | 28 | 8th grade | 37 | 28 | 41 | 27 | 39 | 27 | 60 | 41 | 9th grade | 40 | 31 | 22 | 15 | 43 | 30 | 29 | 19 |
| Total | 130 | 100 | 149 | 100 | 144 | 100 | 148 | 100 |
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Gender differences in first experience of alcohol consumption: 1995 , ; 2004 .
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