Reports
Author(s): Ferris, Jackie ; Wynne, Harold J.
Publisher: Canadian Consortium for Gambling Research
Year Published: 2001
Date Added: April 09, 2015
Resource Type: Research report
This report provides an overview of the development, validation and reliability testing of the Canadian Problem Gambling Index.. The goal was to develop a new, more meaningful measure of problem gambling for use in general population surveys, one that included more indicators of the social and environmental context of gambling and problem gambling. This report contains information on the Canadian national survey that validated the newly developed CPGI (N=3,120).