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The Gambling Commission Publishes Statistics on Participation in Remote Gambling
11 May 2007
Key findings include:
• Over the four quarters to March 2007, 8.4% of the 8,000 adults surveyed said they had participated in at least one form of remote gambling in the previous month. This compares with the 2006 calendar year figure of 7.9%. The remaining 91.6% of respondents said they had not participated in any form of remote gambling.
• Those participating in remote gambling remain more likely to be male than female, and are likely to be aged 18 - 34.
• If those only playing the National Lottery remotely are excluded, 6.1% of respondents had participated in remote gambling. This compares with the 2006 calendar year figure of 5.8%. Overall, 5.5% of respondents said they had gambled remotely on the National Lottery in the previous month (either only or in addition to other types of gambling activity). This compares with the 2006 calendar year figure of 5.3%.
• Remote gambling via a computer, laptop or handheld device was most popular (5.7%), compared with a figure of 5.2% in 2006. 2.5% of respondents had accessed gambling via a mobile phone in the year to March, compared to 2.2% in 2006 and 1.8% of respondents accessed gambling via interactive/digital TV compared to 1.7% in 2006.
The document titled ‘Survey Data on Remote Gambling Participation’ is available on the Gambling Commission’s website at:
www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk