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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
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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

10 - Prohibited gaming

26.45. No bankers' games may be played in alcohol licensed premises, commercial clubs or in members’ clubs and or miners’ welfare institutes unless they have a club gaming permit. With a permit the two bankers’ games of pontoon and chemin de fer may be played. Otherwise, games such as blackjack, roulette and any others which involve staking against the holder of the bank are unlawful on such premises.

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