The Scottish Centre for Social Research and National Centre for Social Research combined their nationally representative surveys for the first time to create Gambling in England and Scotland, 2012: Combined data from the Health Survey for England and the Scottish Health Survey. This study is the third instance where both surveys have been combined into one study. Similar sampling methods and approaches to data collection make these two surveys directly comparable. The surveys collected data from 12,334 individuals 16 years of age and older in private households in England and Scotland. Data have been combined and reweighted to represent the general population of Great Britain.
Both studies use the same questions from the Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI) and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV (DSM-IV) to determine past year gambling behaviours and the rate of problem gambling in Great Britain. This dataset is the first in the series to have weights applied to data for non-responses on both gambling participation questions and problem gambling screens. The incorporation of gambling participation questions and screens into the surveys was done as a way of continuing to collect data on problem gambling in the countries after the cancellation of the British gambling pervalence survey (BGPS) series.
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