and a higher variability between the countries, no adjustment
for age was performed in the subsequent analyses.
About 59.3% of the UK freshmen drank alcohol once a
week or more often, followed by Bulgaria (33.6%), Germany
(26.9%), Slovakia (15.1%) and Poland (12.2%).
Problem drinking (two or more positive responses in
CAGE) was found in 22.1% of UK students, followed by
Slovakia (21.2%), Germany (17.0%), Bulgaria (13.6%) and
Poland (11.8%). Importance of religious faith was highest
among Polish participants followed by Slovakian, UK,
Bulgarian and German participants. As expected, there
was a substantial variation in students’ religions by
country, with 21% of students stating no religion in Slovakia,
15.7% in Bulgaria, 12.1% in Germany and only
1.0% in Poland (data for the UK were not available).
Among those who stated religion, most common was
Christianity, but there were substantial differences in
denominations, with Catholics being most common in
Poland and Slovakia, Orthodox Christians in Bulgaria
and Protestants in Germany