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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Published
10 November 2022

Last updated
31 October 2025 - Changes

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Contents

• Young People and Gambling 2022: Official statistics

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• Executive summary
• • Introduction
  • Headline statistics
  • Presentation and interpretation of data
  • Acknowledgements
• 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
• • Applying the DSM-IV-MR-J problem gambler screen
  • Research design
  • Sample profile
• List of gambling activities and definitions
• • List of gambling activities
  • Definitions

3 - Remote gambling and software technical standards

Contents

1. RTS 1 – Customer account information Customer account information
2. RTS 2 – Displaying transactions Displaying transactions
3. RTS 3 – Rules, game descriptions and the likelihood of winning What we expect you to abide by when creating your game rules, descriptions and the likelihood of winning.
4. RTS 4 – Time-critical events Time-critical events
5. RTS 5 – Result determination
6. RTS 6 – Result determination for play-for-free games RTS 6 – Result determination for play-for-free games
7. RTS 7 – Generation of random outcomes RTS 7 – Generation of random outcomes
8. RTS 8 – Auto-play functionality Auto-play functionality
9. RTS 9 – Progressive jackpot systems RTS 9 – Progressive jackpot systems
10. RTS 10 – Interrupted gambling Details of what we mean by interrupted gambling and how you might implement standards within your gambling business.
11. RTS 11 – Limiting collusion and cheating The Gambling Commission's guidance on limiting collusion and cheating related to remote gambling software.
12. RTS 12 – Financial limits RTS 12 – Financial limits
13. RTS 13 – Time requirements and reality checks Time requirements and reality checks
14. RTS 14 – Responsible product design Responsible product design
15. RTS 15 – In-play betting In-play betting
16. RTS 16 – Use of third party software
17. RTS 17 – Live dealer studios

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Last updated: 31 October 2025

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RTS 12 updated.