Year

Year of survey.

Changes between years

Statistical significance is measured at the 5% significance level ( p value < .05).

Statistically significant differences between survey years ( p < .05) are indicated by the symbols and (significant increase or decrease respectively).

The symbol ≈ indicates there is no statistically significant difference between survey years.

A statistically significant difference is likely to represent a real change over time, rather than random variation due to the sampling process.

Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI)

Gambling harm

Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI; Ferris & Wynne, 2001) is a 9-item scale used to assess people's experiences of gambling-related harm in the last 12 months.

- Data

Prevalence for selected subtopic

This table gives the percentage of the population affected (that is, the unadjusted prevalence in the specified population). Click on an indicator to find out more about it.

Year

Ethnicity

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	Total		Men		Women
Indicator	%	(95% CI)	%	(95% CI)	%	(95% CI)
Moderate-risk and problem gambler	2.4	( 1.9 - 3.1 )	2.8	( 2 - 3.8 )	2.1	( 1.4 - 3 )
Any-risk gambler	8.3	( 7.4 - 9.3 )	9.7	( 8.3 - 11.3 )	7.1	( 6 - 8.4 )
Low-risk gambler	5.9	( 5.2 - 6.7 )	6.9	( 5.7 - 8.2 )	5.0	( 4.2 - 6 )
Non-problem gambler	52.4	( 50.7 - 54 )	53.2	( 50.8 - 55.5 )	52.1	( 49.8 - 54.4 )
Non-gambler	35.9	( 34.2 - 37.5 )	33.4	( 31.1 - 35.7 )	37.7	( 35.4 - 40.1 )

	Total		Men		Women
Indicator	%	(95% CI)	%	(95% CI)	%	(95% CI)
Moderate-risk and problem gambler	4.9	( 2.8 - 7.9 )	6.4	( 2.6 - 12.7 )	3.5	( 2 - 5.7 )
Any-risk gambler	14.4	( 11.1 - 18.3 )	15.9	( 10.6 - 22.5 )	13.1	( 9.2 - 17.8 )
Low-risk gambler	9.5	( 7 - 12.6 )	9.5	( 6.1 - 14 )	9.6	( 6.1 - 14.1 )
Non-problem gambler	52.8	( 47.8 - 57.7 )	53.0	( 45.8 - 60.1 )	52.7	( 45.7 - 59.7 )
Non-gambler	30.0	( 25.4 - 34.9 )	27.3	( 21 - 34.4 )	32.3	( 25.8 - 39.4 )

	Total		Men		Women
Indicator	%	(95% CI)	%	(95% CI)	%	(95% CI)
Moderate-risk and problem gambler	5.7	( 2.5 - 10.8 )	6.2	( 2.8 - 11.6 )	5.2	( 0.9 - 15.7 )
Any-risk gambler	16.1	( 11.2 - 22.1 )	16.0	( 9.8 - 24.2 )	16.1	( 9 - 25.9 )
Low-risk gambler	10.4	( 6.7 - 15.2 )	9.8	( 4.8 - 17.4 )	10.9	( 5.9 - 17.9 )
Non-problem gambler	42.0	( 36.4 - 47.7 )	47.0	( 37.7 - 56.5 )	37.3	( 31 - 43.9 )
Non-gambler	35.4	( 29.2 - 42.1 )	30.5	( 21.9 - 40.2 )	40.1	( 31.3 - 49.4 )

	Total		Men		Women
Indicator	%	(95% CI)	%	(95% CI)	%	(95% CI)
Moderate-risk and problem gambler	1.9	( 1 - 3.4 )	2.1	( 1 - 3.8 )	1.8	( 0.5 - 4.7 )
Any-risk gambler	10.1	( 7.9 - 12.7 )	13.4	( 10 - 17.6 )	7.1	( 4.5 - 10.7 )
Low-risk gambler	8.2	( 6.2 - 10.5 )	11.4	( 8.1 - 15.4 )	5.3	( 3.2 - 8.1 )
Non-problem gambler	37.3	( 33.6 - 41.1 )	44.2	( 38.7 - 49.7 )	30.9	( 25.9 - 36.2 )
Non-gambler	49.0	( 45.1 - 53 )	38.1	( 32.6 - 43.9 )	59.1	( 53.3 - 64.7 )

	Total		Men		Women
Indicator	%	(95% CI)	%	(95% CI)	%	(95% CI)
Moderate-risk and problem gambler	1.9	( 1.4 - 2.6 )	2.3	( 1.4 - 3.5 )	1.6	( 1 - 2.4 )
Any-risk gambler	6.6	( 5.7 - 7.7 )	7.5	( 6 - 9.2 )	5.9	( 4.7 - 7.1 )
Low-risk gambler	4.7	( 4 - 5.6 )	5.2	( 4 - 6.7 )	4.2	( 3.3 - 5.3 )
Non-problem gambler	56.4	( 54.4 - 58.4 )	55.5	( 52.7 - 58.3 )	57.9	( 55 - 60.7 )
Non-gambler	33.7	( 31.8 - 35.7 )	33.3	( 30.6 - 36.1 )	33.4	( 30.7 - 36.3 )

Source: New Zealand Gambling Survey

Notes:

Dashes indicate that the data is not available.