CT: Spectrum Gaming Report #6

The percentage of past-year probable pathological gamblers in Connecticut is 0.6
percent; lifetime, 1.2 percent. The problem-gambler rates are understandably
higher: 0.8 percent for past-year; 2.1 percent for lifetime.

The combined rates for problem gamblers and probable pathological gamblers: 1.4
percent for the past year and 3.3 percent for lifetime (slightly lower than the
SOGS rates of 1.5 percent and 3.7 percent, respectively).

For at-risk gamblers, a category that does not exist on the SOGS screen, the past-year rate of 4.1 percent translates into 109,336 Connecticut adult residents. Lifetime, the figure is 192,006 for a rate of 7.2 percent.

Prevalence estimates using the NODS Screen are provided below with margin-of-error rates factored in:

Past Year Problem (0.8%) +/- (0.4%) 10,667 to 32,001
Past Year
Pathological (0.6%) +/- (0.3%) 8,000 to 24,001
Lifetime Problem (2.1%) +/- (1.2%) 24,001 to 88,003
Lifetime Pathological (1.2%) +/- (0.6%) 16,001 to 48,002

– page 47 Spectrum Gaming Group (SGG) “Gambling in Connecticut”
2009

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