Sanctioned in 2020, the Commission undertook two years of pilot tests and fieldwork on methodologies to develop a new format for its survey collecting data on gambling prevalence in Great Britain.
The survey is carried out independently by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) and the University of Glasgow, with the aim of providing stakeholders with “high-quality information about the gaming, betting, and playing habits, attitudes, and harms experienced across the adult population in Great Britain.”
In 2024, the Commission published the first two datasets of the GSGB titled ‘Wave-1’ and ‘Wave-2’, branded as the “largest survey about people’s gambling behaviours in the world, collecting data from a total of 20,000 respondents each year.”
As detailed, Wave-1 of the GSGB was representative of a sample of 4,801 adults aged 18 and over who ..
