February 2008 The Socio-Economic Impact of Gambling Framework Inter-Provincial Consortium for the Development of Methodology to Assess the Social and Economic Impact of Gambling This research was funded by the Inter-Provincial Consortium for the Development of Methodology to Assess the Social and Economic Impact of Gambling. [...] This means that the utility of the framework is expected to evolve through ongoing application of the analytic tools, the development of specific impact indicators, and the analysis and interpretation of the impact results. [...] A review of the literature on the socio-economic analysis of gambling, as a form of economic development, shows the inconsistencies and problems in theoretical and methodological issues as well as inconsistency in the use of terminology in defining. [...] A specially assembled Inter-Provincial Consortium for the Development of Methodology to Assess the Social and Economic Impact of Gambling funded the research for this report, which is titled The Socio-Economic Impact of Gambling (SEIG) Framework – “An Assessment Framework for Canada: In Search of the Gold Standard”. [...] The intention is to assess the range of impact on the individual, family or household and community scale-of-analysis; and to provide a guide for describing and reporting on the quantitative and qualitative impact, and where feasible, dollar or monetary estimates of each impact.