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Chasing Data: Sources of Data for the Study of Gambling Economics
Author(s) -
Farrell Lisa
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
australian economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-8462
pISSN - 0004-9018
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8462.2012.00701.x
Subject(s) - deregulation , variety (cybernetics) , product (mathematics) , public economics , data quality , economics , quality (philosophy) , addiction , business , marketing , industrial organization , psychology , macroeconomics , computer science , metric (unit) , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , epistemology , artificial intelligence , neuroscience
The last decade has seen significant deregulation in the betting and gaming sector in many developed countries. This deregulation, coupled with technology‐led product innovation, has seen a renewed interest in the drivers of the demand for gambling and the prevalence of excessive gambling. The necessity for governments to track the social impacts of the gambling has led to an increased need for high‐quality data and this article will review the variety of empirical resources available to researchers. I also discuss innovations in measures or scales employed to quantify excessive gambling and addiction.