GambleAware recommends that gambling prevalence research should move online
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GambleAware has published ‘
commissioned research’ to clarify fragmented data, insights and analysis of the UK’s gambling participation and its associated prevalence of related harms.
The research, undertaken by Professor
Patrick Sturgis and Professor
London School of Economics, was commissioned by GambleAware following concerns about discrepancies between a
YouGov 2019 survey and ‘
2018 Health Survey for England’.
YouGov feedback registered ‘substantially higher rates of gambling harm than had previously been estimated using the 2018 Health Survey for England, both providing separate
Problem Gambling Severity Index (
PGSI)’.
The surveys produced widely varying estimates of ‘problem gambling’ within the UK, indicated by a PGSI score of 8+, ranging from 0.7% to 2.4% of adults.