Internet Gambling: Prevalence, Patterns, Problems, and Policy Options

By Robert T. Wood, Robert J. Williams. 2009

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Internet gambling policy in critical comparative perspective: the effectiveness of existing regulatory frameworks (2011, background): “In British Columbia, the prevalence rate of Internet gambling is 5.0%, and ranges from 3.1% to 8.2% in the various Atlantic Provinces (Wood & Williams, 2009).”
The classification accuracy of four problem gambling assessment instruments in population research (2014, methodology): “The study received ethics approval from the University of Lethbridge Human Subjects Review Board and the details of this ‘International’ study are available elsewhere (Wood & Williams, 2009, 2011).”
Defining the online gambler and patterns of behaviour integration: evidence from the British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2010 (2011, background): “This is supported somewhat by Wood and Williams (2008; 2011) who noted that online gamblers tended to be those who were already heavily engaged in gambling and that online gambling was likely added to respondents’ existing repertoire of gambling behaviour.”
Best Practices in the Population Assessment of Problem Gambling (2010, background): “The details of this study and the sample are comprehensively described in Wood & Williams (2009).”
THE POPULATION PREVALENCE OF PROBLEM GAMBLING: Methodological Influences, Standardized Rates, Jurisdictional Differences, and Worldwide Trends (2012, background): “The first study was an online gambling survey of 12,521 adults from 105 countries in 2007 (Wood & Williams, 2009, 2012).4 The second study was a gambling prevalence study of 3,028 adults from southern Ontario in 2008 (Williams & Volberg, 2009, 2010).5 Depending on the assessment instrument, the two…”
Do advertising and promotions for online gambling increase gambling consumption? An exploratory study (2014, background): “Although Internet gamblers are predominantly male (Gainsbury, Wood, Russell, Hing, & Blaszczynski, 2012; Wood & Williams, 2009), recruiting only 10 women for this study precludes insights into how women’s responses to these advertisements may differ.”