Gambling Survey 2007

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.

本调查描绘了芬兰居民的赌博习惯，包括赌博频率、赌博金额以及对于赌博成瘾者的看法。在此处，‘赌博’一词作为涵盖彩票、老虎机、投注、赌马、轮盘赌、纸牌和骰子桌等赌博活动的总称。首先，受访者被展示了一份芬兰国家彩票运营商Veikkaus提供的各种游戏的列表，并被询问在过去12个月或之前是否玩过这些游戏。他们还被要求指出在过去一年中他们所参与的其他赌博类型、投注和机会游戏。受访者还被询问他们通常参与上述赌博活动的频率，以及他们是否通常通过赌马人或代理人或互联网进行赌博。受访者还被要求估算他们在赌博上平均每周和每天的支出金额。受访者还被询问是否曾返回另一天尝试赢回他们所输的钱，是否曾超出预期进行赌博，是否在赌博时虽然实际亏损却声称自己正在赢钱，以及是否有人批评他们的赌博或告诉他们存在赌博问题。一些问题还探讨了受访者是否曾在赌博时感到愧疚，是否曾想要停止投注金钱或赌博但无法做到，以及他们是否曾向家庭成员隐瞒自己的赌博行为。受访者还被询问是否曾因赌博与共同生活的家庭成员就金钱处理方式发生争执，以及这些争执是否围绕他们的赌博展开。其他话题包括受访者是否曾向他人借款且因赌博而未能偿还，是否因赌博而损失了工作或学校时间，以及他们是否为了赌博或偿还赌博债务而借款或获得资金。最后，受访者还被询问他们自己是否赌博过多，以及他们是否曾用其他目的借来的钱进行赌博。他们还被询问赌博问题在芬兰是否是一个严重的问题，以及赌博问题是否有所增加、保持不变或减少。受访者还被询问是否有任何亲戚或同龄人存在赌博问题，以及芬兰组织赌博的方式是否有助于减少问题赌博。背景变量包括受访者的性别、年龄、职业群体、月收入、家庭规模、市政规模和居住地区。