Report
Young People and Gambling 2022
Gambling Commission report produced by Ipsos on young people and their gambling behaviour, attitudes and awareness in 2022.
Contents
- Executive summary
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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
- The Impact of gambling on young people
- Online gambling
- National Lottery play
- Games and gaming machines
- The Context for gambling participation
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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
Problem gambling by gender
Boys are more likely to be classified as at risk gamblers (3.2 percent) than girls (1.8 percent). However, analysis of the 2022 dataset does not identify variations by gender in those defined as problem gamblers.
Table 1: Types of gamblers by gender (last 12 months)
Gender | Total | Non-gambler | Non-problem gambler | At risk gambler | Problem gambler | ||||
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Base size | Percentage | Base size | Percentage | Base size | Percentage | Base size | Percentage | Base size | |
Boys | 1,238 | 69.4% | 845 | 26.4% | 321 | 3.2% | 39 | 0.7% | 8 |
Girls | 1,167 | 67.5% | 801 | 29.3% | 347 | 1.8% | 21 | 0.9% | 10 |
The numbers of individuals who fall into the categories of ‘at risk gamblers’ and ‘problem gamblers’ are low (below our threshold for analysis of 50 or more cases). As such these results should be treated with caution.
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Problem gambling by age
Last updated: 9 November 2022
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