Following consultations undertaken between 2020 and 2021, the Commission launched the GSGB project to change how data is collected on “adult gambling participation and problem gambling prevalence statistics.“
Today, wave one of the GSGB datasets was released, centered on gambling participation, focusing on gambling activities that adults participate in and their reasons for gambling. The Commission stands by the methodology of research and data collection, to improve the tracking of gambling trends over time on the public, offering frequent and consistent data collection among adults in Great Britain.
As detailed by Research Director Ben Haden: “The GSGB provides a consistent and frequent way of collecting data among adults in Great Britain and will provide regular data outputs to help us understand changes in gambling behavior among th..