gambling in alberta - Research Services - University of Lethbridge

Table 54: Correlation between Crime-Related Incidents per Year and Gambling Availability per Year in Alberta (1962 to 2009).
# Pull
Ticket
Licences
per 1000
Adults
# Bingo
Events per
1000
Adults
# AB
Ticket
Lottery
Centres
per 1000
Adults
# VLTs per
1000
Adults
# VLT
locations
per 1000
Adults
# Casinos
and RECs
per 1000
Adults
# Slot
Machines
per 1000
Adults
# EGMs
per 1000
Adults
197
Per Adult Net
Gambling
Expenditure
(2010
dollars)
Criminal Code Incidents 0.66 0.52 0.85 -0.25 -0.25 -0.04 -0.20 -0.25 -0.15
p .00 .00 .00 .14 .15 .82 .25 .15 .40
N 31 31 33 35 35 35 35 35 35
Violent Crime Incidents -0.08 -0.17 0.90 0.70 0.68 0.88 0.74 0.80 0.83
p .68 .37 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00
N 31 31 33 35 35 35 35 35 35
Property Crime Incidents 0.37 0.21 0.83 -0.29 -0.28 -0.06 -0.05 -0.18 -0.09
p .04 .26 .00 .09 .10 .74 .79 .31 .61
N 31 31 33 35 35 35 35 35 35
Theft Incidents 0.64 0.60 0.55 -0.77 -0.75 -0.68 -0.73 -0.83 -0.76
p .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00
N 31 31 33 35 35 35 35 35 35
Fraud Incidents 0.35 0.43 -0.06 -0.79 -0.77 -0.81 -0.79 -0.88 -0.86
p .05 .02 .75 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00
N 31 31 33 35 35 35 35 35 35
Counterfeiting Incidents 0.27 0.24 -0.08 0.44 0.46 0.18 0.34 0.28 0.36
p .41 .46 .77 .25 .24 .06 .31 .33 .48
N 31 31 21 33 33 33 33 33 33
Illegal Gambling Incidents -0.03 0.18 -0.77 -0.25 -0.24 -0.45 -0.54 -0.45 -0.47
p .86 .32 .00 .15 .16 .01 .00 .01 .00
n 31 31 33 35 35 35 35 35 35
Note: For Counterfeiting a correlation was taken between data prior to 1998 and another correlation with data from 1998 to present. These correlation coefficients
and p values were averaged together.