‘How Much Do You Spend Gambling?’: Ambiguities in Questionnaire Items Assessing Expenditure

Blaszczynski, Alex; Ladouceur, Robert; Goulet, Annie; Savard, Claude

doi:10.1080/14459790600927738

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“…However, even among educated medical students, only 32% to 64% interpret "how much do you spend gambling?" to mean net expenditure (Blaszczynski, Dumlao, & Lange, 1997). Many medical students interpreted it as initial outlay or total outlay (initial outlay + reinvestment of winnings).…”

Section: Ambiguous Question Wordingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Proportion of Ontario Gambling Revenue Derived from Problem Gamblers

Williams

Wood

2007

Canadian Public Policy

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The proportion of gambling revenue derived from problem gamblers is an important issue when considering the appropriateness of government-sponsored gambling. Figures obtained from prior research are tentative due to methodological problems and the mismatch between reported expenditures and actual gambling revenue. Using improved methods for assessing the prevalence of problem gambling and self-reported gambling expenditures, the present study estimates that the 4.8% of problem gamblers in Ontario in 2003 accounted for approximately 36% of Ontario gambling revenue. This proportion varied as a function of game type, with a lower proportion for lotteries, instant win tickets, bingo, and raffles and a higher proportion for horse racing and slot machines.

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Section: Ambiguous Question Wordingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Proportion of Ontario Gambling Revenue Derived from Problem Gamblers

Williams

Wood

2007

Canadian Public Policy

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“…A possible explanation for the observed overreporting is that players may have misunderstood the question as having asked how much they bet instead of how much they actually lost (i.e., bets minus winnings) (Blaszczynski, Ladouceur, Goulet, & Savard, 2006). That being said, while the 2009 mean is strongly influenced by one outlier, who spent considerably more than others, an overreporting was also found in 2013, although to a lesser extent.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 76%

Exploring the Effects of Introducing a State Monopoly Operator to an Unregulated Online Gambling Market

Kairouz¹,

Fiedler²,

Monson³

et al. 2017

JGI

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Recent expansions in regulated offerings to include online forms of gambling have been undertaken amid animated debate on the potential impacts of this legalization. The objective of the present study is to examine changes in online gambling patterns before and after the opening of Espacejeux: the state-operated gambling website in Québec, Canada. Information on gambling habits was drawn from two repeated cross-sectional surveys conducted with samples representative of the general adult population of the province of Québec in 2009 (N = 11,888) and 2012 (N = 12,008). Behavioural data were retrieved from the Online Poker Database of the University of Hamburg (ODP-UHH) for 4,591,298 (2009/2010) and 2,909,562 (2013) unique real money poker identities; all Québec players were retained for analysis. Gambling patterns before and after legalization of online gambling were compared. The prevalence of Internet gambling remained stable: 1.5% of the population gambled online in 2012 compared to 1.4% in 2009. Of those surveyed, 82.5% continued to gamble on unregulated sites in 2012 and data from OPD-UHH confirmed that 90% of all real money online poker players still bet on unregulated sites in 2013. Results suggest that it may be prudent for government stakeholders to consider alternative approaches for managing online gambling offerings. Longitudinal analyses are needed to disentangle the effects of legalization of online gambling.

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“…In other words, the information of interest is the net value of the money spent. Blaszczynski et al (1997) concluded that in response to this question, two-thirds of the respondents interpret this as their net expenditure. The rest of the respondents relate their answer to turnover or other alternative interpretations.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, the question asked how much the respondent spent on gambling. As shown by Blaszczynski et al (2006), this question is biased and is subject to ambiguity because the question "how much money do you spend gambling?" may be interpreted in different ways and may lead to misinterpretation.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We apply a mean rate burden to these expenditures to obtain the tax burden on each individual. As supported by Blaszczynski et al (1997), we assume that the gambling budget reported by most of the respondents represents the net expenditures, corresponding to the gross revenue of casinos and lotteries. To determine this rate, we calculate a weighted average of the tax on the 19 casinos and 2 lotteries in Switzerland.…”

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On the Regressivity of Gambling Taxes in Switzerland

Kohler

2016

Swiss J Economics Statistics

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Summary In this study, the author assesses whether the gambling tax in Switzerland is regressive using a large, representative sample of the population and the reported gambling expenditures of the Swiss Health Survey 2007 (SHS 07). To analyze the tax incidence, the Suits index was constructed. This result is supported by a regression analysis, which highlights the income elasticity of gambling expenditures The two measures provide converging results and demonstrate the regressive pattern of the gambling tax in Switzerland As such, this taxation structure contributes to increased income inequality in Switzerland.

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‘How Much Do You Spend Gambling?’: Ambiguities in Questionnaire Items Assessing Expenditure

Cited by 50 publications

References 6 publications

The Proportion of Ontario Gambling Revenue Derived from Problem Gamblers

The Proportion of Ontario Gambling Revenue Derived from Problem Gamblers

Exploring the Effects of Introducing a State Monopoly Operator to an Unregulated Online Gambling Market

On the Regressivity of Gambling Taxes in Switzerland

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