Statistics and research release
Gambling participation in 2019: behaviour, awareness and attitudes
Gambling behaviour, awareness and attitude statistics are published each February in our Annual Report.
Summary
Additional data sets in this series
- Exploring the information needs of gambling consumers (2019 research)
- Behaviours and attitudes towards gambling with credit cards (2019 research)
- Understanding why people gamble and typologies
- Consumer experiences and attitudes to Free Bets & Bonuses
- Consumer views on cashless payments in land-based gambling
- How do machine gamblers feel about tracked play?
- How the consumer engages with safer gambling opportunities
- Prohibition of gambling on credit cards
- Taking a more in-depth look at online gambling
- Understanding consumer complaints
- Understanding how consumers engaged with gambling advertising in 2020
Key facts
Significant increase at the 95% confidence level
15% - Proportion of online gamblers gambling in the workplace in the past four weeks
(12% in year to December 2018)21% - Percentage of respondents who have gambled online in the past four weeks
(18% in year to December 2018)50% - Proportion of online gamblers who have gambled using a mobile phone in the past four weeks
(44% in year to December 2018)43% - Proportion of respondents who think that gambling is associated with crime
(38% in year to December 2018)65% - Proportion of gamblers who have read terms and conditions and found them to be helpful
(61% in year to December 2018)
Non-significant findings (tested at the 95% confidence level)
47% - Percentage of respondents who have participated in any form of gambling in the past four weeks
(46% in year to December 2018)0.5% - Proportion of respondents who were classified as problem gamblers (those who gamble with negative consequences and a possible loss of control)
According to the full PGSI or DSM-IV screen in 2018 (England)32% - Percentage of respondents who have participated in gambling in the past four weeks, excluding those who have only played the National Lottery draws
(32% in year to December 2018)56% - Percentage of online gamblers who have more than one online account
(54% in year to December 2018)29% - Proportion of respondents who think that gambling is fair and can be trusted
(30% in year to December 2018)
Significant decrease at the 95% confidence level
- 51% - Proportion of respondents who have seen a gambling advert on the television in the last week
(54% in year to December 2018)
Details
View the findings from the full 2019 report.
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