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
Being stopped from gambling for being too young
All young people, regardless of gambling experience, were asked whether they had ever been stopped from gambling because they were too young. Excluding those young people who noted they had never tried to gamble, 15 percent overall reported having been stopped from gambling because they were too young.
Boys were more likely than girls to report having been stopped from gambling for being too young (19 percent, compared with 9 percent).
There have been no overall changes across survey years in the proportions of young people reporting having been stopped from gambling because they were too young.
Figure 3.5: Being stopped from gambling for money due to being too young
Figure 3.5 information
GC_STOPPED. Thinking about gambling for money, have you ever been stopped from gambling because you were too young?
Base: All who did not say they had never tried to gamble (1,045).
Being stopped from gambling due to being too young | 2024 (percentage) |
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Yes | 15% |
No | 42% |
Do not know | 42% |
Who young people were with when they experienced gambling activities Next section
Setting gambling in the context of other risk taking behaviours
Last updated: 7 November 2024
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