DOI: 10.3886/icpsr02778.v2
title: Gambling Impact and Behavior Study, 1997-1999: [United States]
title: Version 2

description: The Gambling Impact and Behavior Study investigates the
gambling behavior and attitudes of adults and youth in America, and
also estimates the effects of gambling facilities on a variety of
local economic and social indicators. Respondents were randomly
selected by a national random-digit dial (RDD) through a stratified
design by state lottery status and distances to major casino. The
study includes three independent, unlinkable data files. The adult and
youth questionnaire (Parts 1 and 2) covered areas such as demographic
information, geographic region, gambling behavior and attitudes,
motivations for gambling, gambling history, a problem-gambling
diagnostic assessment, gambling treatment experience, family/marital
status and issues, income and financial information, criminal
activity, mental and general health, and substance use. Areas of
substance abuse examined were the use of alcohol, marijuana, hashish,
cocaine, crack, methamphetamine, stimulants, tranquilizers,
amphetamines, and speed. The Community Database (Part 3) included the
following: geographic locators (latitude, longitude), availability of
gaming facilities, gaming spending estimates, employment patterns by
industry, unemployment, bankruptcy, personal income, private and
public earnings, government expenditures, income maintenance/AFDC, and
vital statistics.
description: The sample for the adult telephone interviews was derived
 using a national random-digit dial (RDD) design stratified by state
 lottery status, and distances to a major casino. The distribution of
 age and sex of the respondent was controlled using the
 Troldahl-Carter-Bryant method. For the adult patron survey, a random
 sample of gambling facilities was drawn from two western states, three
 Mississippi River states, and three northeastern states. An average of
 25 interviews per facility at 21 facilities was achieved. The youth
 sample was drawn from two lists of telephone numbers: List 1 consisted
 of 5,000 targeted households with youths aged 12-17, while List 2
 consisted of 32,000 RDD numbers targeted at all households. The youth
 sample was also stratified by state lottery status. The community
 database consisted of 100 communities, which were selected using a
 simple random sampling without replacement procedure, from among
 "designated places" as defined by the United States Census Bureau,
 with populations of 10,000 or more. The community database contains
 information on the years 1980-1996. The community sample was
 stratified by distance to major casino and presence of legal
gambling.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Adult Survey
DS2: Youth Survey
DS3: Community Database, 1980-1996
description: The universe consists of the civilian household population
of the United States aged 16 and older. The telephone subuniverse
consisted of those living in households with at least one working
telephone line. The universe for the community database is biased
toward smaller census designated places with populations of 10,000 or
more.
description: Data were collected and prepared for release by
the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of
Chicago.Three survey
methodologies were used for the adult sample. Telephone interviews
were conducted for all but 14 respondents who chose to participate via
mail-in questionnaire. Face-to-face interviews were conducted for
adult patrons of gambling facilities. The in-person and mail-in
questionnaires contained most, but not all, of the questions from the
telephone interview.The youth questionnaire is identical to the
telephone survey administered to adults with one exception. Section D
(the Diagnostic Screen for gambling disorders) was administered to all
youths who reported any lifetime gambling behavior, rather than, as
with adults, only that subset of gamblers who reported dollar losses
above certain limits.The data for the community database includes
two variables for latitude and longitude (INTPTLAT and INTPTLNG) which
will produce a warning when used in SPSS due to their lengths.In
reporting on gambling activities, respondents were asked to include
gambling within the United States, District of Columbia, and Puerto
Rico, and to exclude gambling in other territories, on ships, cruises,
or ferries, as well as other venues on international waters.