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Gambling participation and the prevalence of problem gambling survey: Experimental statistics stage

Gambling Commission report produced by NatCen on the experimental statistics stage of the gambling participation and the prevalence of problem gambling survey.

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Published
19 April 2023

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• Gambling participation and the prevalence of problem gambling survey: Experimental statistics stage

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• Executive summary
• Experimentation work
• Response
• Assessment of experiment results
• Recommendations
• Introduction
• Background
• Aims and overview
• Methodology and response
• Survey design
• Questionnaire content and design
• Response to the survey
• Testing an alternative approach to the selection of participants within households
• Introduction
• Completion rates in responding households
• Adherence to participant-selection instructions
• Duplicate cases
• Household clustering
• Prevalence of gambling behaviours
• Conclusion
• Measuring gambling-related harms
• Introduction
• Testing different ways of asking about gambling harms
• Results
• Conclusion
• Testing different approaches to asking questions about gambling participation
• Introduction
• Comparison of gambling participation across the three approaches
• Potential primacy effect with the long-list approach
• Additional considerations for the postal questionnaire
• Other considerations
• Conclusion

Testing different approaches to asking questions about gambling participation

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1. Introduction Report's testing different approaches introduction for the experimental statistics stage of the gambling participation and the prevalence of problem gambling survey.
2. Comparison of gambling participation across the three approaches Report's comparison of gambling participation for the experimental statistics stage of the gambling participation and the prevalence of problem gambling survey.
3. Potential primacy effect with the long-list approach Report's primary effect with the long-list approach for the experimental statistics stage of the gambling participation and the prevalence of problem gambling survey.
4. Additional considerations for the postal questionnaire Report's considerations for the postal questionnaire for the experimental statistics stage of the gambling participation and the prevalence of problem gambling survey.
5. Other considerations Report's different approaches other considerations for the experimental statistics stage of the gambling participation and the prevalence of problem gambling survey.
6. Conclusion Report's different approaches conclusion for the experimental statistics stage of the gambling participation and the prevalence of problem gambling survey.

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