The GSGB was initiated following consultations that took place in 2020 and 2021, with the Commission launching the project to change how “adult gambling participation and problem gambling prevalence” data is collected.
Yesterday, the GSGB’s ‘wave one’ datasets were revealed, looking at gambling participation with a focus on gambling activities that adults participate in and their reasons for gambling.
Research Director Ben Haden explained: “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 behaviour among the population and among subpopulation groups.”
Using 4,800 respondents aged 18 and over to collect data from July to November 2023, the first datasets found that 48 per cent of surv..