Releases of official statistics and research from the Gambling Commission.
The Gambling Survey for Great Britain (GSGB) collects our official statistics on gambling behaviour in Great Britain. The GSGB is currently the largest survey about people's gambling behaviours in the world, collecting data from over 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.
Findings from the Gambling Survey for Great Britain: Statistics on gambling participation
Collection: Consumer gambling behaviour > Gambling Survey for Great Britain
View the statistics about statistics on gambling participation – year 1 (2023), wave 1
Development of the Gambling Survey for Great Britain
Find out more about the survey, including the timeline for its development.
Measurement of gambling related harms
Understand more about the development of gambling related harms research.
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.
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.
How many adults gambled in the last 4 weeks?
48 percent
Period covered: July 2023 to November 2023View more participation statistics about participation in gambling
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Related blog posts
Blog posts from the Statistics and Research team related to the Gambling Survey for Great Britain
Gambling Survey for Great Britain – Wave 1 results published
Our director of research and statistics, Ben Haden, talks through the launch of the first wave of data from the Gambling Survey for Great Britain, and the plans for the future.
29 February 2024 - Statistics and research.
Gambling Survey for Great Britain: Stakeholder engagement groups progress update (July 2023)
Last week we caught up with our three stakeholder engagement groups (Academics and/or Policy, Industry and Lived Experience) to provide an update on the Gambling Survey for Great Britain (GSGB) project.
26 July 2023 - Statistics and research.