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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

Last updated
14 September 2023 - Changes

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Contents

• 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

5 - Bingo

26.28. Alcohol licensed premises are able to provide facilities for bingo¹⁵ under s.281 of the Act, provided that the restrictions in s.281 are complied with. These include that, in any seven day period, the aggregate stakes or prizes for bingo must not exceed £2,000. If that limit is exceeded, the relevant operating and personal licences must be sought. It should be noted, however, that the bingo will still be subject to the conditions for exempt gaming prescribed in s.279 of the Act. Further details are provided in Part 18 of this guidance.

26.29. The bingo must comply with any code issued by the Commission under s.24 of the Act.

References

¹⁵ For further information regarding this issue Blog: Running bingo events at nightclubs and student union bars and Feature article - Social Bingo

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