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Building awareness – Who gambles?
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Responsible Gambling | Section C: The nature of gambling
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The statistics in C2 and C3 relate to findings from a 2003 longitudinal study into Victorian gambling
and attitudes to gambling – 2003 Victorian Longitudinal Community Attitudes Survey (The Centre
for Gambling Research, ANU). The study showed that 77.4% of resident Victorian adults participated
in at least one of the gambling activities surveyed in the previous 12 months.
Table 7: Comparison of socio-demographic characteristics of gamblers and non-gamblers,
1999 and 2003
Non-gamblers Non-regular gamblers Regular gamblers
1999 2003 1999 2003 1999 2003
Male 45.0 46.7 48.6 47.6 60.4 65.9
Female
Age
55.0 53.3 51.4 52.4 39.6 34.1
18–24 11.2 12.7 13.2 12.8 17.8 12.1
25–34 17.4 19.4 21.4 19.1 18.2 13.6
35–49 30.0 26.9 31.0 30.0 24.0 23.0
50–64 22.7 22.4 23.2 25.0 25.4 29.2
65+
Birthplace
18.7 18.6 11.3 13.0 14.7 22.1
Australia 70.1 70.4 77.4 74.5 80.2 78.5
Overseas
Marital status
29.9 29.6 22.6 25.5 19.8 21.5
Married/living with partner 66.3 63.8 66.9 65.7 60.2 58.3
Separated or divorced 4.6 4.6 5.7 7.1 7.5 8.8
Widowed 6.5 4.8 3.3 3.7 5.7 7.2
Single
Household type
21.9 26.8 23.9 23.5 26.7 25.6
Single person 10.8 9.6 7.7 9.1 11.5 11.0
Group household 9.8 12.6 11.1 13.0 12.2 19.1
Couple, no children 23.7 24.2 22.1 27.3 22.7 30.4
One parent family 4.0 4.3 5.0 5.6 5.1 5.8
Two parent family 48.5 46.1 51.2 42.4 43.9 29.1
Other
Employment status
2.9 3.1 2.8 2.6 4.6 4.7
Working full-time 41.9 41.9 48.2 50.1 49.7 43.7
Working part-time 15.3 16.0 16.2 17.6 13.4 17.4
Home duties 9.2 8.7 10.7 8.7 6.4 4.1
Student 6.6 12.0 5.4 4.3 5.1 3.3
Retired (self supporting) 12.8 10.1 8.5 10.2 11.8 14.0
Pensioner 9.3 8.3 6.6 5.9 10.8 14.4
Unemployed 2.4 2.2 2.9 2.3 2.6 2.8
Other
Education
2.0 0.8 1.1 1.0 0.3 0.4
Up to Year 10/fourth from 24.6 17.8 28.1 19.0 39.3 33.7
Finished high school 24.0 24.2 28.3 29.7 30.3 33.3
TAFE/technical education 7.8 8.0 11.3 8.1 10.5 10.9
CAE/University
Main source of income
43.7 50.1 32.3 43.2 19.8 22.1
Wage/salary 52.8 59.2 64.0 67.2 60.8 55.2
Own business 18.2 17.0 14.2 12.0 10.7 12.7
Other private income 4.4 1.8 3.0 1.5 2.8 1.7
Unemployment benefit 2.0 1.2 2.4 1.3 1.9 2.1
Retirement benefit 5.1 7.2 3.6 7.2 5.1 7.6
Sickness benefit 0.3 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.4
Supporting parent benefit 0.5 0.8 1.5 0.8 1.5 0.8
Aged/invalid pension 12.5 9.2 7.8 7.9 13.3 17.8
Other
Income level
2.1 3.5 2.5 1.9 2.7 1.7
Less than $10,000 21.5 21.4 19.7 15.4 17.7 15.9
$10,000–$24,999 27.9 25.5 24.1 22.5 23.9 29.6
$25,000–$34,999 16.1 14.4 18.9 17.0 20.4 16.5
$35,000–$49,999 15.9 15.0 19.0 19.4 18.6 19.6
$50,000 or more 18.5 23.6 18.3 25.7 19.5 18.5
Source: Total respondents. Weighted n = 8,479.
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