Gambling Severity and Health/Social Service Use in Finland, N=28,153

Supplementary material from a population-based study examining the relationship between gambling severity and the use of general health care and social services. The data originates from the Healthy Finland survey, which included 28,153 respondents. The study was authored by figshare admin karger and last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling the probability of health care service use based on gambling severity and demographic factors mentioned in the description.
• Analyzing associations between gambling severity and social vulnerabilities like psychological distress and long-standing illness.
• Comparing health and social service utilization rates between problem gambling, low-risk gambling, and non-gambling groups.

Strengths

• Based on a nationwide population survey with 28,153 respondents, providing a substantial sample size.
• Includes specific, reported statistics such as 86% of individuals with problem gambling utilized health care services and an 18% utilization rate for social care services.
• Results show a quantified association, with the problem gambling group being 2.1 times more likely to utilize health care services than the non-gambling group.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 33.0 KB, suggesting it may be summary-level or supplementary material rather than raw survey data.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for detailed statistical modeling.

Provenance

Source

Healthy Finland survey

Collection Method

Population-based survey

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-22 07:55:11; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Finland