Study title

Youth Gambling Survey 2006

Dataset ID Number

FSD2251

Persistent identifiers

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2251
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd2251

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

• Ministry of Social Affairs and Health

Abstract

The survey charted the gambling habits of Finnish youth. 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. The respondents were asked to indicate the different 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. In addition, the respondents indicated where and with whom they had gambled, and whether the staff in the gambling venue had asked about their age or did not allow them to gamble. If the respondent engaged in gambling activities more often than twice a month, he/she was asked to estimate the average weekly sum spent in gambling, and the largest sum spent during one day.

One topic pertained to whether any of respondents' relatives or peers had had a gambling problem. 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 criticised their gambling or told them they had a gambling problem.

Some questions explored whether the respondents 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, and whether they had ever lost time from work or school due to betting or gambling. The respondents were also asked whether they had borrowed or stolen money to gamble or to pay gambling debts, and if they had, they were asked to indicate from where/whom they received the money. Finally, the respondents' opinions were probed on whether they had a friend who had a gambling problem, whether teachers, other school personnel, or parents had talked about gambling, whether respondents' parents gambled, and how often they gambled when respondents were present.

Background variables included respondent's gender, age, region of residence, education, available monthly resources, household size, and municipality size.

Keywords

addiction; adolescents; debts; expenditure; family members; friends; gambling; gaming machines; guilt; lotteries; youth

Topic Classification

• Social sciences (Fields of Science Classification)
• Social behaviour and attitudes (CESSDA Topic Classification)
• Youth (CESSDA Topic Classification)

Series

Individual datasets

Distributor

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

2006

Collection Dates

2006-05-10 – 2006-05-31

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

Individual

Universe

Finnish population aged between 12 and 17 (excluding the Åland Islands)

Time Method

Cross-section

Sampling Procedure

Probability: Simple random

Random sampling from Finland's population register

Collection Mode

Telephone interview: Computer-assisted (CATI)

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Data File Language

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Number of Cases and Variables

87 variables and 5000 cases.

Data Version

2.0

Related Datasets

FSD2252 Youth Gambling Survey 2006: Test Shopping

FSD2253 Youth Gambling Survey 2006: Age Limit Enforcement

Completeness of Data and Restrictions

Variable indicating postcode (bv4) has been removed from the data.

Weighting

There are no weight variables in the data.

Citation Requirement

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: Youth Gambling Survey 2006 [dataset]. Version 2.0 (2018-07-24). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2251

Deposit Requirement

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Disclaimer

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

Related Materials

Aho, Pauliina & Ilkas, Hannu (2006). Nuorten rahapelaaminen 2006. Sosiaali- ja terveysministeriö/Taloustutkimus

Related Publications

Aho, Pauliina & Ilkas, Hannu (2006). Nuorten rahapelaaminen. Helsinki: Sosiaali- ja terveysministeriö/Taloustutkimus.

Räsänen, T & Lintonen, T & Raisamo, S & Konu, A (2016). How much gambling is too much? Identifying potential problem gambling among adolescents. International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health. DOI: 10.1515/ijamh-2015-0073

Räsänen, Tiina (2016). Terveys pelissä. Nuorten rahapelaamisen yhteys riskikäyttäytymiseen. Tampere: Tampereen yliopisto. Acta Electronica Universitatis Tamperensis 1722. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-03-0257-3