Table 1.

Overview of recent German general population surveys

Source	Year of data collection	Case finding instrument	Funding	Survey mode /sampling frame	Age range in years	Sample size	Threshold for the assessment of gambling problems	Past year prevalence estimate of pathological gambling
Buth and Stöver (2008)	2006	DSM‐IV	Gambling provider	Phone/RDD and online access panel	18 – 65	7,981	Weekly gambling or spending ≥ 50 €/month on some form of gambling	0.56%
Bühringer et al. (2007)	2006	DSM‐IV	Public	Paper‐pencil and phone and/official inhabitants registries	18 – 64	7,817	Spending ≥ 50 €/month on some form of gambling	0.20%
Haß et al. (2012)	2007	SOGS	Gambling provider	Phone/RDD	16 – 65	10,001	Any gambling past year	0.19%
Haß et al. (2012)	2009	SOGS	Gambling provider	Phone/RDD	16 – 65	10,000	Any gambling past year	0.45%
Sassen et al. (2011b)	2009	DSM‐IV	Public	Paper‐pencil, online and phone /official inhabitants registries	18 – 64	8,006	Spending ≥ 50 €/month on some form of gambling	0.31%
TNS EMNID (2011)	2011	DSM‐IV	Gambling machine industry	Phone/RDD	>18	15,002	Spending ≥ 50 €/month for gambling	0.23%
Haß et al. (2012)	2011	SOGS	Gambling provider	Phone/RDD	16 – 65	10,002	Any gambling past year	0.49%

SOGS = South Oaks Gambling Screen (Lesieur and Blume, 1987); DSM‐IV = DSM‐IV criteria operationalized according to Stinchfield (2002);

RDD = random digit dialing procedure based on landline telephone numbers.