FSD2285 Gambling Survey 2007
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Study title
Gambling Survey 2007
Alternative Title
Gambling in Finland
Dataset ID Number
FSD2285
Persistent identifier
urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2285Data Type
Quantitative
Authors
- Ministry of Social Affairs and Health
Abstract
The survey charted Finnish gambling habits, the frequency of gambling, the amount of money gambled, and views on gambling addicts. The term gambling is used here as an umbrella term for lotteries, slot machines, betting, bookmaking, the pools, roulette wheels, and card and dice tables.
First, the respondents were presented with a list of various Veikkaus (the National Lottery of Finland) games and asked whether they had played them during the past 12 months or before. They were also asked to indicate other types of gambling, betting, and games of chance they had played during the past year. They were also asked how often they usually engaged in the mentioned gambling activities, and whether they usually gambled through a bookmaker or an agent, or on the Internet. The respondents were asked to estimate the average weekly and daily sum spent in gambling.
The respondents were also asked whether they returned another day to try to win back the money they had lost, whether they ever gambled more than they intended to, whether they had ever claimed to be winning while gambling even though they were actually losing money, and whether people had criticised their gambling or told them they had a gambling problem.
Some questions explored whether the respondents had ever felt guilty while gambling, whether they had wanted to stop betting money or gambling but could not do it, and whether they had ever hidden their gambling from their family members. The respondents were also asked whether they had ever argued with people they live with over how they handled money and whether those arguments had ever centered on their gambling.
Other topics included whether the respondents had ever borrowed from someone and not paid them back as a result of their gambling, whether they had ever lost time from work or school due to betting or gambling, and whether they had borrowed or acquired money to gamble or to pay gambling debts. Finally, the respondents' opinions were probed on whether they themselves gambled or had gambled too much, and whether they had ever gambled money borrowed for other purposes. They were also asked whether problem gambling was a serious problem in Finland, and whether gambling problems had increased, stayed the same, or decreased. The respondents were also asked whether any of their relatives or peers had had a gambling problem, and whether the Finnish way of organising gambling helps to reduce problem gambling.
Background variables included respondent's gender, age, occupational group, monthly income, household size, municipality size, and region of residence.
Keywords
addiction; debts; expenditure; family members; friends; gambling; gaming machines; guilt; lotteries
Topic Classification
- Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
- Social behaviour and attitudes (CESSDA Topic Classification)
Series
Finnish Gambling SurveysDistributor
Finnish Social Science Data Archive
Access
The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.
Data Collector
- Taloustutkimus
Data Producers
- Ministry of Social Affairs and Health
Time Period Covered
2007
Collection Dates
2007-04-24 – 2007-05-24
Nation
Finland
Geographical Coverage
Finland
Analysis/Observation Unit Type
Individual
Universe
Finnish population aged 15 or over (excluding the Åland Islands)
Time Method
Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section
Sampling Procedure
Probability
Random sampling from the population register. The sample included 20,000 persons, and sample selection was quota-controlled to ensure the national representativeness of interviews. The contact information of 10,512 persons were used to reach the intended number of respondents.
Collection Mode
Telephone interview: Computer-assisted (CATI)
Research Instrument
Structured questionnaire
Response Rate
48
Data File Language
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Number of Cases and Variables
129 variables and 5008 cases.
Data Version
2.0
Completeness of Data and Restrictions
The variable indicating municipality and three South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS-R) variables have been removed from the data.
Weighting
The data include a weight variable. It weighs the sample to be nationally representative of the target group according to age, gender, and region of residence, excluding the Åland Islands.
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The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.
Bibliographical Citation
Ministry of Social Affairs and Health: Gambling Survey 2007 [dataset]. Version 2.0 (2018-07-12). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2285
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Related Materials
Aho, Pauliina & Turja, Tuomo (2007). Suomalaisten rahapelaaminen 2007 [verkkodokumentti]. Helsinki : Sosiaali- ja terveysministeriö/Taloustutkimus. Saatavissa: http://www.stm.fi/Resource.phx/vastt/paihde/peli/index.htx.i403.pdf [viitattu 07.01.2008].
Related Publications
Aho, Pauliina & Turja, Tuomo (2007). Suomalaisten rahapelaaminen 2007 [verkkodokumentti]. Helsinki: Sosiaali- ja terveysministeriö/Taloustutkimus.
Raisamo, Susanna & Salonen, Anne H (2013). Muutokset 15-64-vuotiaiden suomalaisten rahapelaamisessa vuosina 2003-2011. Yhteiskuntapolitiikka 78 (5), 544-553.
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