British gambling prevalence surveys
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What is a British Gambling Prevalence Survey?
The British Gambling Prevalence Surveys were
large-scale nationally representative surveys of participation in
gambling and the prevalence of problem gambling in Great
Britain.
The survey data sets from the three prevalence surveys (1999,
2007 and 2010) are available from the UK Data Archive.
The British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2010 was the last bespoke
gambling prevalence survey commissioned by the Gambling
Commission.
From 2013 we will be pursuing a decoupled approach to the
collection of adult gambling prevalence data (ie the separate
collection of participation and problem gambling data) through the
Health Survey for
England and the Scottish Health Survey.
British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2010
The British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2010 was the
third nationally representative survey of participation in
gambling and the prevalence of problem gambling in Great Britain.
It built on the first two British prevalence surveys and
involved over 7,500 participants.
British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2007
The British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2007 was
the first to be commissioned by the Gambling Commission and was
undertaken to help us understand the nature and scale of gambling
in Great Britain at a point before the Gambling Act 2005 was
implemented.
A random sample of 9,003 people aged 16 and
over participated in the survey.
Data collected by the survey also formed the
basis of a range of secondary analysis projects.
British Gambling Prevalence Survey 1999
The British Gambling Prevalence Survey 1999 was
commissioned by GamCare to provide baseline data on adult gambling
behaviour in Great Britain. It was the first nationally
representative survey of its kind in this country and it provided
statistically robust data on adult participation in gambling plus
an estimate of the prevalence of problem gambling in Great
Britain.
A random sample of 7,700 people aged 16 and
over participated in the survey.
Page last reviewed: September
2012