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The Gambling Survey for Great Britain (GSGB) year one statistics and datasets for 2023 have been released by the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC).
The CEO of the Commission, Andrew Rhodes, approved the use of the most recent survey as the most thorough investigation into gambling involvement carried out by a regulatory body.
He noted:
“The Gambling Survey for Great Britain has been painstakingly developed to give us the level of detail we need with modernised questions, increased frequency, and flexibility. It will also benefit from an increase in scale – with around 20,000 respondents each year when it is fully up and running. It will be the largest survey of its kind in the world.”
The GGSB report displays 16 datasets on gaming impacts and the risks they bear against PGSI. The key takeaways are:
• 2.5% had a PGSI score at risk of high, vice versa it means those aged 25-34 years old were most likely to score.
• Amongst the 18-24 years old engaging in gambling lately, 9.1% were at major risk.
• Offline track betting (39%) and online slots (24.5%) were high-risk activities. Breakdowns in relationships as a result of gambling (1.6%), financial impacts, suicidal thoughts reaching 11.4% with a connection with gambling by 4.9%.
“Data in this report represents the first year of a new baseline, against which future changes can be compared and as such will prove invaluable in deepening further our understanding of gambling across the country.”
said Tim Miller, the Executive Director of Research and Policy who also signed the statistics.
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