Home > Library Resources > Reference Sources > National Gambling Studies

 Print this page

Canada

• Gambling in Canada: Triumph, Tragedy, or Tradeoff?
  -- A series of reports produced from September 1998 to October 2001 by the Canada West Foundation.
  
  
• Gambling in Canada (1996)
  -- A report from the National Council of Welfare.
  URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1880/260
  
  
• Gaming Licensing Policy Review (2001)
  -- A 600-page government report in two volumes that contains findings and recommendations to address issues related to the growth of gaming in the Province of Alberta.
  URL: http://www.aglc.gov.ab.ca/gaming/industryreviewsstudies.asp
  
  
• Reports of the Joint Committee of the Senate and the House of Commons on Capital Punishment, Corporal Punishment, and Lotteries (1956) 

United States

• The National Gambling Impact Study Commission Report (1999)
  URL: http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/ngisc/
  
  
• The Public Sector Gaming Study Commission Report (2000)
  

   -- Prepared for the National Council of Legislators from Gaming States (NCLGS)
  URL: http://fliog.govoffice3.com/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7BB67786DA-0999-4486-BAB5-BE22A396539B%7D
  
  

• Gambling in America: Final Report (1976)
  -- Prepared by the U.S. Commission on the Review of the National Policy Toward Gambling.
  URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1880/41368
  

Australia

• Inquiry report into gambling (2010)
  -- The inquiry provides an update on developments since the Commission's 1999 report.
  URL: http://www.pc.gov.au/projects/inquiry/gambling-2009/report
   
• The Productivity Commission's gambling inquiry: 3 years on (2002, Nov) 
  -- Presented by Gary Banks to to the 12th Annual Conference of the National Association for Gambling Studies.
  URL: http://www.pc.gov.au/speeches/cs20021121
   
• Inquiry into Australia's Gambling Industries (1999, December)
  -- Report from the Australian Productivity Commission
  URL: http://www.pc.gov.au/projects/inquiry/gambling/docs/finalreport
  
  

New Zealand

• New Zealand National Gaming Survey (2001)
  -- From the Department of Internal Affairs
  URL: http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Resource-material-Our-Research-and-Reports-New-Zealand-Gaming-Survey?OpenDocument
  

 United Kingdom

• Gambling Review Report (2001, July)
  -- From the Department for Culture, Media and Sport which is an official review of gambling policy. The previous review of gambling was conducted between 1976 and 1978 by a Royal Commission under the leadership of Lord Rothschild.
  URL: http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/publications/4642.aspx
  
  
• A Safe Bet for Success - Modernising Britain's Gambling Laws (2002, March 26)
  -- The government response to the Gambling Review Report
  URL: http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/media_releases/2762.aspx
  
  
• The Government's Proposals for Gambling: Nothing to Lose? (2002, July 24)
  -- Examines the impact of the policy proposals outlined above.
  URL: http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200102/cmselect/cmcumeds/827/827.pdf
  
  
• Gambling Behaviour in Britain: Results from the British Gambling Prevalence Survey (2000)
  -- This report by Kerry Sproston, Bob Erens, & Jim Orford was the first nationally representative survey of its kind conducted in Britain.
  URL: http://lotteryreturns.cimex.com/UploadDocs/publications/Document/1999%20Prevalence%20Study.pdf

South Africa

• Gambling and problem gambling in South Africa: A national study (2003)
  
  
• Gaming and Problem Gambling in South Africa (2001, November)
  -- by the National Centre for the Study of Gambling [South Africa].
  

Sweden

• Gambling and Problem Gambling in Sweden: Report No. 2 of the National Institute of Public Health Series on Gambling (1999)
  URL: http://www.austgamingcouncil.org.au/images/pdf/eLibrary/1797.pdf
  

European Union

• Study of Gambling Services in the Internal Market of the European Union: Final Report (2006)
  URL: http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/services/gambling_en.htm
  

Last Updated: 06/25/10