Twice as Many British Online Gambling Game Accounts Are From Most Deprived Areas, Study Shows

Twice as Many British Online Gambling Game Accounts Are From Most Deprived Areas, Study Shows
Undated photo of a woman at a computer that displays an online gambling game. Joel Ryan/PA Media
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People in the most deprived areas of Great Britain are more than twice likely to participate in gambling games online than those from the least deprived areas, a study suggests.

The Patterns of Play report (pdf) published on Thursday found that 29.2 percent of gaming accounts came from Britain’s 20 percent most deprived areas while only 12.9 percent of accounts were from the 20 percent least deprived areas.
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Lily Zhou is an Ireland-based reporter covering China news for The Epoch Times.
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