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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.

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Summary

To set the findings in context, this report also provides information on young people’s wider experience of gambling, which is taking part in gambling but not necessarily with their own money.

Summary

Three in five (60 percent) of young people have experience of some form of gambling, with 50 percent saying they have experienced gambling in the last 12 months. When it comes to being actively involved in gambling (spending their own money on gambling) 31 percent have been actively involved in the last 12 months, with 18 percent actively involved in the last four weeks and 7 percent actively involved in the last seven days.

The research highlights the difference between experience of gambling in the last 12 months and active involvement. This is most notable for arcade gaming machines play, where over a third (35 percent) reported experience of play, but less than a quarter (22 percent) spent their own money on doing so, and National Lottery scratchcards, where 8 percent reported play, but only 1 percent used their own money.

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