You may have heard of the "British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2007" recently released by the British Government, but chances are that you've neither seen nor are likely to brave its 186 pages of charts, graphs and observations.

That's understandable but it's also a shame because the BGPS report is actually quite informative.

The British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2007 (BGPS07) is a study of the prevalence, nature and effects of gambling on the British population.

It follows a similar survey conducted in 1999 and is primarily intended as a benchmark against which future studies—one is already planned for 2009/10—will be compared.

The intent of course, is to allow the British government to measure the impact that the Gambling Act 2005 has on gambling behaviour and attitudes.

Conducting such a survey is of particular importance in the UK today because there have been considerable changes in the gambling landscape in Britain in the last seven years.

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