Report
Young People and Gambling 2023
Gambling Commission report produced by Ipsos on young people and their gambling behaviour, attitudes and awareness in 2023.
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
Content of gambling adverts and promotions seen
Young people who had been exposed to gambling adverts or promotions were asked what the last one they had seen was about.
The research findings show that young people were most likely to recall seeing an advert or promotion about ‘lotteries’ (mentioned by 43 percent). Over one third recalled the last gambling advert they saw as being about betting (36 percent) or about bingo (35 percent) and three in ten remember it being about casinos (29 percent). However, one quarter of those who had seen adverts could not remember or did not know what it was about (25 percent).
This is reflective of the findings in 2022.
Figure 30: Nature of gambling adverts seen
Figure 30 information
GC_ADABOUT. And thinking about the last time you saw or heard a gambling advert; do you remember what it was about?
Base: All participants answering who have seen and/or heard any gambling adverts or promotions (2,040).
Note: This is a multiple response question, so the responses shown will not add up to 100 percent.
Nature of gambling advert | Percentage who have seen (multiple response question, therefore answers do not sum to 100 percent). |
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Lotteries | 43% |
Betting | 36% |
Bingo | 35% |
Online slots and/or casinos | 29% |
Can’t remember | 16% |
Don’t know | 9% |
Other | 1% |
There were also some differences by gender in the content of gambling adverts that young people had last seen. For example, girls were more likely than boys to have last seen an advert about the lottery (48 percent, compared with 39 percent), or bingo (40 percent compared with 29 percent). Whereas boys were more likely than girls to have last seen an advert about betting (43 percent, compared with 29 percent of girls) and online slots or casinos (31 percent, compared with 25 percent).
There were some notable age differences regarding the content of gambling adverts that young people had last seen, with 17 year olds more likely to have seen a betting advert than those aged 11 to 13 years old or 14 to 16 years old (56 percent compared to 29 percent and 39 percent). Those aged 14 to 16 years old are more likely than 11 to 13 year olds to have last seen an advert about betting (39 percent compared with 29 percent) or online slots and casinos (32 percent compared with 25 percent).
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Last updated: 16 November 2023
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