2024-07-26
First Gambling Survey for Great Britain Annual Report published
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The Gambling Commission has today launched a new gambling survey which is set to become one of the largest in the world and establish a new baseline for understanding gambling behaviour in Britain.
The first annual report of the Gambling Survey for Great Britain, produced by National Centre for Social Research and the University of Glasgow, features responses from 9,804 people but will increase to around 20,000 by next year.
The publication provides greater insight into attitudes and gambling behaviours – presenting a fuller picture, illuminating participation rates, the type of gambling activities participated in, experiences and reasons for gambling, and the consequences that gambling can have on individuals and others close to them.
Tim Miller, Executive Director of Research and Policy, said: “One of our aims as a regulator is to ensure we gather the best possible evidence on gambling – and today’s publication is the next significant step forward in our journey on creating a robust source of evidence for gambling in Great Britain.
“Data in this report represents the first year of a new baseline, against which future changes can be compared1 and as such will prove invaluable in deepening further our understanding of gambling across the country.”
Professor Patrick Sturgis, Professor of Quantitative Social Science at the London School of Economics, added: “The new design of the Gambling Survey for Great Britain will significantly enhance the evidence base on patterns and trends in gambling behaviour.
“With an annual sample size of 20,000 individual interviews across the nations and regions of Great Britain, the survey will provide researchers and policy makers with fine-grained and timely data across a broad range of key indicators.
“Using a push-to-web mixed mode design and random probability sampling from the Postcode Address File, the survey implements state-of-the-art methodology to a very high standard.”
As part of a drive to ensure the new statistics are used correctly the Commission has published guidance on how this data can be interpreted. For example, estimates presented in this report are not directly comparable with results from prior surveys due to the differing methodology, including a bigger sample size. The Commission will always robustly tackle any misuse of official statistics and our guidance sets out how we do this.
