Aineiston nimi

Gambling Survey 2011

Aineiston rinnakkainen nimi

Gambling in Finland

Aineistonumero

FSD2722

Pysyvä tunniste

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2722

Aineiston laatu

Kvantitatiivinen aineisto

Tekijät

• National Institute for Health and Welfare

Sisällön kuvaus

The survey charted Finnish gambling habits, frequency of gambling, amount of money gambled and views on problem gambling. 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 as well as online variations of all of these.

The first section of the survey focused on gambling games in general. The respondents were presented with a list of various games (e.g. lotto games and scratchcards of Veikkaus, the National Lottery of Finland, games of chance in a casino and slot machines of Finland's Slot Machine Association, RAY) and asked whether they had played them during the past 12 months or before. Other questions charted online gambling, the gambling websites visited, frequency of gambling activities, and money and time spent on gambling in the previous 30 days. The respondents were asked to estimate the average weekly sum spent on gambling, the largest win in the previous 12 months, their age and the game played when they gambled for the first time.

The second section covered perceptions on gambling. The respondents were asked whether they thought gambling was a problem in Finland, whether the problems associated with gambling had increased or decreased and if the government monopoly and the age limit of 18 were effective ways of limiting problem gambling. The respondents were asked to what extent they agreed with statements relating to gambling, such as "people should have the right to gamble whenever they want" and "gambling is detrimental to family life."

In the third section, the respondents' Internet use and habits of playing non-gambling games were charted. Questions covered whether they had an Internet connection, how many hours not relating to work they had spent on the Internet in the previous 7 days, whether they played video games and how many hours they had played them in the previous week and month.

The respondents' relation to gambling was examined. They were asked how often they returned another day to try to win back the money they had lost, whether they had claimed to be winning while gambling even though they were actually losing money, whether they had gambled more than they intended to, and whether people had criticised their gambling or told them they had a gambling problem. Some questions explored whether the respondents had felt guilty while gambling, whether they had wanted to stop betting money or gambling but could not do so, and whether they had hidden their gambling from their family members. Some questions covered arguments with the people the respondents lived with over how the respondents handled money and whether those arguments had centred on their gambling.

Other topics included whether the respondents had borrowed from someone and not paid them back as a result of their gambling, whether they had 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, opinions were probed on whether the respondents themselves gambled or had gambled too much, whether they had gambled money borrowed for other purposes and whether they had tried to seek help for gambling addiction. Most of the questions in this section focused on the circumstances in the previous 12 months.

The final section pertained to health and welfare. The respondents were asked to estimate their current status of health and how often they had felt nervous, calm, despondent and happy in the previous four weeks. They were also asked if they had, in the previous 12 months, had periods during which they had been discouraged, sad or depressed, or lost their interest in things that they usually found pleasing. Smoking and alcohol use were charted.

Background variables included the respondent's gender, year of birth, marital status, number of years studied, monthly net income and employment status.

Asiasanat

addiction; debts; expenditure; family members; friends; gambling; gaming machines; guilt; health; lotteries; social problems; social welfare

Tieteenala/Aihealue

• Social sciences (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• Social behaviour and attitudes (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)

Sarja

Finnish Gambling Surveys

Jakelija

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Käyttöoikeudet

The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.

Kerääjät

• Taloustutkimus

Tuottajat

• National Institute for Health and Welfare

Ajallinen kattavuus

2011

Aineistonkeruun ajankohta

2011-10-03 – 2012-01-14

Maa

Finland

Kohdealue

Finland

Havaintoyksikkötyyppi

Individual

Perusjoukko/otos

People aged 15-74 living in Finland (poislukien Åland Islands)

Tutkimuksen aikaulottuvuus

Longitudinal: Trend/Repeated cross-section

Otantamenetelmä

Probability: Simple random

A random sample of 16,000 persons drawn from the population register. The sample was delivered to Taloustutkimus, which commissioned DirektMedia 121 to form a separate register out of those individuals for whom a phone number was found. Phone numbers were found for 11,129 individuals.

Before the interviews, Taloustutkimus sent a letter to all the persons included in the original sample, informing them of the study. Those for whom a phone number had not been found, were invited to participate by leaving their contact information to Taloustutkimus. 120 persons did so (119 eventually participated in the study). The total number of respondents (i.e. the number of completed interviews) was 4,484 persons.

Keruumenetelmä

Telephone interview

Keruuväline tai –ohje

Structured questionnaire

Datatiedostojen kieli

Aineistopaketti voi sisältää samoja tiedostoja eri kielisinä.

Aineisto sisältää datatiedostoja seuraavilla kielillä: englanti ja suomi.

Tietoarkisto kääntää kvantitatiivisia datatiedostoja englanniksi. Lisätietoja käännöspyynnön jättämisestä.

Havaintojen ja muuttujien lukumäärä

176 muuttujaa ja 4484 havaintoa.

Datan versio

3.0

Painokertoimet

There is a weight variable [paino] in the data which weighs the sample to be nationally representative of the target group according to age, gender and region of residence (NUTS2), excluding the Åland Islands. Population information published on 1 January 2011 by Statistics Finland was used for weighting.

Viittausvaatimus

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.

Malliviittaus

National Institute for Health and Welfare: Gambling Survey 2011 [dataset]. Version 3.0 (2018-07-26). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2722

Julkaisusta tiedottaminen

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Varaumat

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Julkaisut aineistosta

Turja, Tuomo & Halme, Jukka & Mervola, Markus & Järvinen-Tassopoulus, Johanna & Ronkainen, Jenni-Emilia (2012). Suomalaisten rahapelaaminen 2011. Helsinki: Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos/Taloustutkimus. Raportti 14/2012. URN:ISBN:978-952-245-422-5

Castrén, Sari & Basnet, Syaron & Salonen, Anne H & Pankakoski, Maiju & Ronkainen, Jenni-Emilia & Alho, Hannu & Lahti, Tuuli (2013). Factors associated with disordered gambling in Finland. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 8:24. doi:10.1186/1747-597X-8-24

Raisamo, Susanna & Salonen, Anne H (2013). Muutokset 15-64-vuotiaiden suomalaisten rahapelaamisessa vuosina 2003-2011. Yhteiskuntapolitiikka 78 (5), 544-553.

Heiskanen, Maria & Toikka, Arho (2015). Clustering Finnish Gambler Profiles Based on the Money and Time Consumed in Gambling Activities. Journal of Gambling Studies. May 2015. DOI:10.1007/s10899-015-9556-8

Smolej, Mirka & Karjalainen, Salla & Jaakkola, Tapio (2015). Rahapelaamisen riskirajoilla. Helsinki: Ehkäisevä päihdetyö EHYT ry.

Markham, F. & Young, M., & Doran, B. (2015). The relationship between player losses and gambling-related harm: evidence from nationally representative cross-sectional surveys in four countries. Addiction, doi: 10.1111/add.13178.

Raisamo, S. & Mäkelä, P. & Salonen, AH. & Lintonen, T. (2015). The extent and distribution of gambling harm in Finland as assessed by the Problem Gambling Severity Index. European Journal of Public Health 2015;25(4):716-22.

Salonen AH, Alho H, Castrén S (2017). Attitudes towards gambling, gambling participation and gambling-related harms within genders by age: cross-sectional Finnish population studies in 2011 and 2015. BMC Public Health. 2017;17:122. DOI 10.1186/s12889-017-4056-7.

Salonen AH, Castrén S, Alho H, Lahti T (2014). Concerned significant others of people with gambling problems in Finland: a cross-sectional population study. BMC Public Health. 2014;14:398.

Salonen AH, Alho H, Castrén S (2014). Gambling frequency, gambling problems and concerned significant others of problem gamblers in Finland: Cross-sectional population studies in 2007 and 2011. Scand J Public H. 2015;43(3):229-235. Doi: 10.1177/1403494815569866. Epub 2015 Mar 4.

Edgren R, Castrén S, Jokela M, Salonen AH (2016). At-risk and problem gambling among Finnish youth: The examination of risky alcohol consumption, tobacco smoking, mental health and loneliness as gender specific correlates. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. 2016;33(1):1-19.

Salonen AH, Castrén S, Raisamo S, Orford J, Alho H, Lahti T (2014). Attitudes towards gambling in Finland: a cross-sectional population study. BMC Public Health. 2014;14:982.

Salonen AH, Rosenström T, Edgren R, Volberg R, Alho H, Castrén S (2017). Dimensions of the South Oaks Gambling Screen in Finland: a Cross-sectional Population Study. Scand J Psychol. DOI: 10.1111/sjop.12357

Salonen, Anne & Hagfors, Heli (2020) Rahapelaamiseen liittyvät asenteet ja mielipiteet - Suomalaisten rahapelaaminen 2019. THL. Tilastoraportti 24/2020.

Salonen, Anne & Hagfors, Heli & Lind, Kalle & Kontto, Jukka (2020) Rahapelaaminen ja peliongelmat - Suomalaisten rahapelaaminen 2019. THL. Tilastoraportti 8/2020.

Salonen, Anne & Hagfors, Heli & Lind, Kalle & Kontto, Jukka (2020) Gambling and problem gambling - Finnish Gambling 2019: Prevalence of at-risk gambling has decreased. Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL). Statistical report 9/2020. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2020041719053

Salonen A, Lind K, Hagfors H, Castrén S, Kontto J. (2020) Rahapelaaminen, peliongelmat ja rahapelaamiseen liittyvät asenteet ja mielipiteet vuosina 2007-2019. Suomalaisten rahapelaaminen 2019. THL, raportti 18/2020. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-343-594-0

Salonen A, Hagfors H, Lind K, Kontto J: Penningspelande och spelproblem: Finländarnas penningspel 2019: Det riskfylla spelandet har minskat. Statistikrapport 32/2020. THL. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2020120399406