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continued from Commission Report Avail - 1 Once again, so with little surprise, the most popular gambling past time was the purchase of National Lottery tickets, with 45.4 percent choosing the oldie but goodie as their favorite gamble. Scratch cards was a distant second, earning only 10.5 percent of the votes, with tickets for social or other charity cause lotteries bringing in third with 9.9 percent. The statistics showed that bettors were more likely to be men than women, and the greatest age demographic was that above 45 years. The facts determined this time around in relation to the online gambling world were less than anticipated, with many believing that the economic crises affecting most of the world’s industries. Of the 8,000 surveyed, only 10.7 percent of the adults had used one form of remote or online gambling in the last four weeks. Of those ten percent, half of them said that product was a National Lottery bet. Though the numbers are very slightly higher than those collected in 2009 for the same period, the increase of only .2 percent was less than what the UK internet casinos companies were hoping for. It marked good news for the National Lottery, however, which accounted for most of the growth anyways. If those who exclusively played NL were excluded from the stats, a mere 5.7 percent of those surveyed had gambled online or through mobile platforms, the same amount of people who did in the year before. In 2008, 5.6 had gambled that way, noting hardly any change at all in the category over the last four years. For those who purport that the legalization and regulation of the industry results in rampant and out of control use of internet casinos, the statistics in the UK show clearly that their fears are unfounded. Though online gamblers are also more likely to be male than female, the majority of internet bettors’ ages differed, showing instead that the typical member was more likely to be aged between 18 to 44 years. Players clearly preferred to access their betting sites through computers and laptops, with 9.4 percent saying it was their favorite way to bet , while mobile phones won over 2.8 percent and interactive and television gambling secured 1.7 percent. |
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