Report
Young People and Gambling 2023: Official statistics
Gambling Commission report produced by Ipsos on young people and their gambling behaviour, attitudes and awareness in 2023.
Contents
- Executive summary
- Young people’s active involvement in gambling
- Experience of gambling
- The Impact of gambling on young people
- Online gambling
- National Lottery play
- Games and gaming machines
- The Context for gambling participation
- Attitudes towards and exposure to gambling
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- 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
Online gambling using parent's or guardian's accounts
To understand the context in which young people are accessing online gambling, they were asked if they had ever used their parent's or guardian's accounts to play online, with or without their permission.
Overall, young people were more likely to use their parent's or guardian's accounts for any type of online gambling with their permission (6 percent), rather than without (2 percent). When looking at specific gambling accounts, young people were more likely to have played National Lottery games online with their parent's or guardian's permission (5 percent), than without (2 percent). Similarly, young people were more likely to have played on gambling websites or placed bets online with their parent's or guardian's permission (5 percent) compared with those without (2 percent).
These figures are reflective of the trends seen in 2022.
Figure 13: Online gambling using a parent's or guardian’s account - Whether young people gambled online with their parent's or guardian's permission or not
Figure 13 information
PLAYONLINE. Please read all of the following sentences and select those that are true about you. Here ‘online’ refers to websites and apps.
Base: All 11 to 17 year olds answering (2,750).
Note: This is a multiple response question, so the responses shown will not add up to 100 percent.
| Online gambling behaviour | Percentage who find this sentence true (multiple response question, therefore answers do not sum to 100 percent) |
|---|---|
| Used parent's and/or guardian's account to play National Lottery games online with their permission | 5% |
| Used parent's and/or guardian's account to play on gambling websites or place bets online with their permission | 5% |
| Used parent's and/or guardian's account to play National Lottery games online without their permission | 2% |
| Used parent's and/or guardian's account to play on gambling websites or place bets online without their permission | 2% |
| None of these sentences are true about me | 92% |
Overall experience of online gambling Next section
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Last updated: 16 November 2023
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