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
Overall experience of online gambling
A minority of young people have experienced some form of online gambling in the last 12 months. Less than one in twenty 11 to 17 year olds had placed a bet on eSports or on a website or an app in the last 12 months (both 2 percent), with similar findings for those who had played casino games online (1 percent). As few as 1 percent of young people had experienced National Lottery online instant win games or bingo online in the last 12 months.
These figures are reflective of the trends seen in 2022, with a slight decrease in betting on eSports or on a website or an app (1 percentage point decrease respectively) while the proportion of young people who have experienced National Lottery online instant win games remains unchanged in comparison to 2022.
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Last updated: 16 November 2023
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