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Gambling Survey for Great Britain (GSGB)

The Gambling Survey for Great Britain (GSGB) collects our official statistics on gambling behaviour in Great Britain. The GSGB is one of the largest survey about people's gambling behaviours in the world, collecting data from 20,000 respondents each year. This information helps us better understand people’s attitudes and gambling behaviours up and down the country, creating a robust source of evidence for gambling in Great Britain.

Latest Gambling Survey for Great Britain publications

Statistics on gambling participation – Year 2 (2024), wave 2: Official statistics

Released: 5 December 2024

Findings from the Gambling Survey for Great Britain: Statistics on gambling participation

Collection: Consumer gambling behaviour > Gambling Survey for Great Britain

Statistics on gambling participation – Year 2 (2024), wave 1: Official statistics

Released: 12 September 2024

Findings from the Gambling Survey for Great Britain: Statistics on gambling participation

Collection: Consumer gambling behaviour > Gambling Survey for Great Britain

Information about the Gambling Survey for Great Britain

• Development of the Gambling Survey for Great Britain

  Find out more about the survey, including the timeline for its development.

• Survey Methodology

  Read the GSGB technical report to find out how the data was collected, who took part in the survey and what questions were asked.

• Measuring the adverse consequences from gambling

  Read how we have developed new questions about adverse consequence from gambling which are included in the GSGB survey.

• Guidance on using statistics from the Gambling Survey for Great Britain

  Using our official statistics

• Survey Improvements

  Find out how we are continually improving the GSGB and implementing recommendations from the Sturgis report.

Interactive dashboard

View our GSGB interactive dashboard (opens in new tab)

With this dashboard, you can:

• view and interact with the data
• apply filters to select information of interest.

Accessibility of this dashboard

This dashboard is in Microsoft Power BI which may not fully support all accessibility needs. You can find the source data in the GSGB Annual report (2023) data tables and the GSGB Annual report (2023) supplementary region and country data tables.

Some files may not be accessible for users of assistive technology. If you require a copy of the file in an accessible format contact us with details of what you require. It would help us to know what technology you use and the required format.

Introducing the Gambling Survey for Great Britain (1 minute 55 seconds)

   

 

 

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Hi, I’m Helen Bryce, Head of Statistics at the Gambling Commission and I want to tell you about the new Gambling Survey for Great Britain.

The Commission has developed the Gambling Survey for Great Britain to provide a high quality survey which will provide more timely information across the whole of Great Britain. It will be the largest survey of its kind about peoples’ gambling behaviours in the country, replacing our previous quarterly telephone surveys.

Each year the Gambling Survey for Great Britain will collect data from twenty thousand respondents and help us better understand peoples’ gambling behaviour and attitudes towards gambling up and down the country.

We will write to a random sample of people, inviting them to take part in the survey. Respondents will be able to complete the survey either online or via a postal submission. With over forty per cent of respondents choosing to respond on paper during our experimental testing in 2023, it’s important that we offer this option to ensure that everybody gets a chance to take part and give their results to us in a way that they find most convenient.

The approach we are using also ensures privacy for respondents, and all answers provided in the survey will be entirely confidential. This is important because some of the questions in the survey cover sensitive topics.

The Gambling Survey for Great Britain will provide a robust source of evidence for decision making, and from 2024 will be the new source of official statistics on gambling behaviours in Great Britain.

 

Participation in gambling

How many adults gambled in the past 4 weeks?

48 percent

Period covered: April to July 2024
Released: December 2024

View more participation statistics

Next release dates

Next wave

Period covered: July 2024 to October 2024
To be released: 27 February 2025 (Wave 3, 2024)

Next annual release

Period covered: January 2024 to December 2024
To be released: 3 July 2025 (Annual report 2024)

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  New data and updates for the Gambling Survey for Great Britain

  Our Director of Research and Statistics Ben Haden discusses the latest wave of participation data for the Gambling Survey for Great Britain and provides an update on the next steps.

  19 September 2024 - Statistics and research.

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  Gambling Survey for Great Britain - Year 2 (2024), Wave 2 results published

  Our Head of Statistics, Helen Bryce, talks through recently published data from the Gambling Survey for Great Britain and provides an update on improvements to the design of the survey.

  10 December 2024 - Statistics and research.