In order to disentangle potential effects of the lockdown from the typical seasonal pattern in alcohol consumption, results have been compared with previous waves of Lifelines data. It is worthwhile to mention that alcohol consumption in the Netherlands is pretty average in European terms -e.g. the rate of binge drinking is the same as the European average (Eurostat, 2019), which is slightly lower than in the US (NIAAA, 2019), and there are no significant differences in terms of seasonality either.
