Report
Young People and Gambling 2022: Official statistics
Gambling Commission report produced by Ipsos on young people and their gambling behaviour, attitudes and awareness in 2022.
Contents
- Executive summary
- Young people’s active involvement in gambling
- Summary
- Young people's active involvement in gambling
- Variations in active involvement in gambling
- Variations in active involvement in types of gambling activities
- Prevalence of non-problem, at risk or problem gambling
- Problem gambling by gender
- Problem gambling by age
- Problem gambling by ethnicity
- Experience of gambling
- Summary
- Overall gambling experience
- Overall gambling experience in the last 12 months
- Variations in gambling experience
- The Impact of gambling on young people
- Summary
- How gambling impacts on relations with friends and family
- How gambling makes young people feel
- The impact of gambling on sleep
- The impact of gambling on spending
- The impact of gambling on schoolwork
- Experience and impact of family members’ gambling
- Online gambling
- Summary
- Young people’s active involvement in online gambling
- Overall experience of online gambling
- Online gambling using parent's or guardian's accounts
- Awareness and use of in-game items in video games
- National Lottery play
- Summary
- Young people’s active involvement with lottery products
- Wider experience of lottery games
- Buying a National Lottery draw ticket or scratchcard
- Who young people are with when playing a National Lottery product?
- Games and gaming machines
- Summary
- Young people’s active involvement in games and gaming machines
- Overall experience of games and gaming machines play
- Who is with young people when they play gaming machines?
- Types of gaming machines
- Play in an adults-only area
- The Context for gambling participation
- Summary
- Setting gambling in the context of other risk-taking behaviours
- Setting gambling in the context of other activities
- Reasons why young people gamble
- Why young people don’t gamble
- Who young people were with when they gambled
- Attitudes towards and exposure to gambling
- Summary
- Young people’s views on gambling
- Feeling informed about gambling
- Being stopped from gambling
- Young people’s exposure to gambling adverts and promotions and frequency of exposure
- Content of gambling adverts and promotions seen
- Whether ever prompted to gamble by adverts and promotions
- Following gambling companies on social media
- Appendices
- List of gambling activities and definitions
Sample profile
Profile of young people
The following table as shown in Table A.5: Sample profile 2022 outlines the details of the sample profile for the 2022 study; covering all 11-16 year olds who participated in the Young People Omnibus (YPO).
Table A.5 - Sample profile 2022
Sample group | Unweighted (number) | Unweighted (percentage) | Weighted (percentage) |
---|---|---|---|
Total | 2,559 | 100% | 100% |
Gender of pupils | |||
Male | 1,238 | 48% | 48% |
Female | 1,167 | 46% | 46% |
In another way | 82 | 3% | 3% |
Prefer not to say | 72 | 3% | 3% |
Age of pupils | |||
11 | 85 | 3% | 4% |
12 | 447 | 17% | 20% |
13 | 693 | 27% | 22% |
14 | 719 | 28% | 24% |
15 | 442 | 17% | 18% |
16 | 173 | 7% | 11% |
Year of pupils2 | |||
7 | 401 | 16% | 20% |
8 | 696 | 27% | 21% |
9 | 639 | 25% | 21% |
10 | 547 | 21% | 20% |
11 | 276 | 11% | 18% |
Ethnic origin | |||
White | 1,923 | 75% | 73% |
Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) | 589 | 23% | 26% |
Region | |||
London | 270 | 11% | 14% |
South East | 346 | 14% | 14% |
South West | 195 | 8% | 8% |
North East | 278 | 11% | 4% |
North West | 264 | 10% | 11% |
East of England | 208 | 8% | 10% |
East Midlands | 216 | 8% | 8% |
West Midlands | 237 | 9% | 10% |
Yorkshire and Humberside | 118 | 5% | 9% |
Scotland | 255 | 10% | 7% |
Wales | 172 | 7% | 4% |
Profile of schools
In this section we analyse how the sample of participating schools compares with the population of schools that are eligible for YPO (that is to say maintained secondary schools in England, Wales and Scotland). The information for England and Wales is drawn from the Department for Education's 'Get Information About Schools’ database, and the equivalent for Scotland.
Less detailed information is available on the sampling frames for schools in Wales and Scotland, and the analysis is based on the information available for each country for each variable. We analyse the profiles of schools for a range of variables, including:
- school type
- regional distribution
- urban and/or rural profile
- proportion of pupils eligible for free school meals.
Type of establishment
Figures for England and Wales for type of establishment are shown as follows in Table A.6: Profile of school type for school population and Young People Omnibus (YPO) starting and/or participating sample. Similar categories are not available on the sampling frame for Scotland where all schools are listed as comprehensive.
The proportions in the population and starting sample are similar. There is a slight drop in the proportion of academies, and an over-representation of Welsh schools in the final sample, which was corrected by weighting the data. Only one free school took part in YPO 2022; in practice, free schools are very similar to academies, so this is unlikely to introduce any bias in the sample.
Table A.6: Profile of school type for school population and Young People Omnibus (YPO) starting and/or participating sample
School type | Percentage of population (all schools eligible to be sampled) | Percentage of all schools sampled for YPO 2022 | Percentage of schools participating in YPO 2022 |
---|---|---|---|
Academies | 65% | 69% | 60% |
Free schools | 7% | 5% | 2% |
Local authority maintained schools | 22% | 21% | 23% |
Welsh schools | 5% | 6% | 15% |
The regional breakdown of the population, starting sample, and participating sample for England and Scotland is shown as follows in Table A.7: Regional profile for school population and Young People Omnibus (YPO) starting and/or participating sample.
The participating sample over-represents schools in the North East and Wales compared with the starting sample and population, and slightly under-represents schools in the East of England, London and Yorkshire and the Humber.
Table A.7: Regional profile for school population and Young People Omnibus (YPO) starting and/or participating sample
Region | Percentage of population (all schools eligible to be sampled) | Percentage of all schools sampled for YPO 2022 | Percentage of schools participating in YPO 2022 |
---|---|---|---|
East Midlands | 8% | 8% | 8% |
East of England | 11% | 11% | 8% |
London | 14% | 14% | 11% |
North East | 4% | 4% | 9% |
North West | 13% | 14% | 13% |
South East | 14% | 15% | 13% |
South West | 9% | 9% | 8% |
Wales | 5% | 6% | 15% |
West Midlands | 11% | 11% | 9% |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 9% | 9% | 6% |
Total (number) | 3,326 | 470 | 53 |
The distribution of urban and rural schools in England, Scotland and Wales is consistent between the sample and population. However, the final profile of participating schools slightly over represents those in rural areas with 20 percent of participating schools being located in rural areas compared with 15 percent of the population.
Table A.8: Rural and/or urban profile for school population and Young People Omnibus (YPO) starting and/or participating sample
Urban or rural | Percentage of population (all schools eligible to be sampled) | Percentage of all schools sampled for YPO 2022 | Percentage of schools participating in YPO 2022 |
---|---|---|---|
All urban | 85% | 85% | 80% |
All rural | 15% | 15% | 20% |
The following table as shown in Table A.9: School size, and average percentage pupils eligible for free school meals for school population and Young People Omnibus (YPO) starting and/or participating sample, shows the average number of pupils in schools, and the average percentage eligible for Free School Meals.
The figures for the population, starting sample and participating sample are broadly.
Table A.9: School size, and average percentage pupils eligible for free school meals for school population and Young People Omnibus (YPO) starting and/or participating sample
Data definitions | Percentage of population (all schools eligible to be sampled) | Percentage of all schools sampled for YPO 2022 | Percentage of schools participating in YPO 2022 |
---|---|---|---|
Average percentage free school meals (England and Wales) | 15% | 14% | 17% |
The sample of schools participating in YPO 2020 is broadly representative of the population, with a similar profile in terms of types of establishment, free school meals, and urbanity profile. There were some differences by region in the profile of our achieved sample compared with the population, but regional weights applied to the data will correct for any regional bias this might have introduced to the findings.
Notes
2 Where responses do not sum to 100 percent this is due to rounding or some young people selecting ‘not stated’. Or equivalent year groups in Scotland.
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Last updated: 27 July 2023
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