Report
Young People and Gambling 2024: Official statistics
Gambling Commission report produced by Ipsos on young people and their gambling behaviour, attitudes and awareness in 2024.
Contents
- Executive summary
- Young people’s active involvement in gambling
- The impacts of gambling on young people
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- Summary
- The impact of gambling on relationships
- Young people’s feelings when gambling
- The impact of gambling on young people’s engagement with school and homework
- The impact of gambling on young people’s sleep
- The impact of gambling on spending
- Experience of ever seeing a family member gambling
- The impact of family members’ gambling on young people
- Wider experience of gambling
- Games and gaming machines
- Online gambling
- Lotteries and lottery style games
- Attitudes towards gambling and reasons for gambling
- Recall of gambling adverts and promotion
- Appendices
- List of gambling activities and definitions
Active involvement with lotteries and lottery style games
Overall, 2 percent of young people had spent their own money on lotteries and lottery style games within the last 12 months, with boys more likely than girls (3 percent, compared to 1 percent).
In terms of specific types of product, 1 percent overall had spent their own money on a National Lottery draw (for example Lotto, EuroMillions or Set for Life, either with a physical ticket or playing online) and 1 percent had spent their own money on National Lottery scratchcards (not free scratchcards) within the past year.
Smaller numbers (fewer than half of 1 percent overall) had spent their own money on National Lottery online instant win games or other lotteries (for example The Health Lottery, People's Postcode Lottery, or other smaller lotteries).
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Wider experience of lotteries and lottery style games
Last updated: 7 November 2024
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