Table 4.

Twelve‐month prevalence of gambling problems in the general population and socio‐demographic subgroups

	Sub‐threshold gambling problems				Pathological gambling
	1‐2 criteria		3–4 criteria		5–10 criteria
	n	% (SE)	n	% (SE)	n	% (SE)
Total	232	1.4 (0.1)	43	0.3 (0.1)	43	0.3 (0.1)
Sex
Male	153	2.0 (0.2)	32	0.5 (0.1)	37	0.6 (0.1)
Female	79	0.8 (0.1)	11	0.2 (0.1)	6	0.1 (0.02)
Age, years
14–30	112	2.1 (0.3)	26	0.6 (0.1)	35	1.0 (0.2)
31–47	72	1.4 (0.2)	10	0.2 (0.1)	5	0.1 (0.1)
48–64	47	0.7 (0.2)	7	0.2 (0.1)	3	0.04 (0.02)
Educational level
< 10 years of schoolinga	30	1.0 (0.2)	9	0.3 (0.1)	14	0.6 (0.2)
10 years of schooling	79	1.5 (0.2)	15	0.4 (0.1)	14	0.3 (0.1)
>10 years of schooling	99	1.6 (0.2)	15	0.2 (0.04)	10	0.1 (0.1)
Occupational status
Unemployed	9	1.2 (0.6)	3	0.4 (0.3)	5	1.1 (0.6)
Migration
born abroad	35	2.2 (0.6)	10	0.8 (0.3)	12	0.9 (0.3)

All estimates were based on the weighted general population telephone samples; estimates of standard error (SE) were corrected for cluster sampling and stratification. For total size of each subpopulation cf. Table 3.

^aIncluding no graduation.