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Attitudes towards gambling

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ANU Poll
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17 Oct 2022
Health + Health Risks + Media & Entertainment
Based on the work of
Nicholas BiddleBen EdwardsMatthew GrayKate Sollis

Australians were asked a series of questions to gauge their attitudes towards gambling, some questions were phrased in support of gambling and some were phrased against it. Australians were generally against gambling and believe that it is not good for society.

90 %

Almost all Australias (90 per cent) agree or strongly agree that there are too many opportunities for gambling nowadays. Almost half (49 per cent) stated they strongly agree and 41 per cent agreed with the statement.

39 %

Two in five (39 per cent) Australians strongly agree and almost one in two (46 per cent) Australians agree that gambling is dangerous for family life. 13 per cent disagree, and only 2 per cent strongly disagree.

82 %

82 per cent of Australians disagree or strongly disagree that gambling is good for society. Only 2 per cent strongly agreed that gambling is good for society.

2 %

Only 2 per cent strongly agree that gambling livens up life in Australia. 19 per cent agreed, 47 per cent disagreed, and 30 per cent strongly disagreed with the statement.

Attitudes towards gambling in Australia (May 2020)
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Variable description Per cent of Australias who agree/disagree
Variable time span May 2020
Published by ANU Poll
Publisher Link http://dx.doi.org/10.26193/GNEHCQ
Data Source Biddle, Nicholas; Edwards, Ben; Gray, Matthew; Sollis, Kate, 2020, "ANU Poll 2020: COVID-19 attitudes and behaviours, Wave 2 (May)", doi:10.26193/GNEHCQ, ADA Dataverse, V1
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ANU Poll is a quarterly survey of Australian public opinion. The topic of each survey is an issue of national importance. ANUpoll differs from other opinion polls by placing public opinion in a broad policy context, and by benchmarking Australia against international opinion. lt is also able to follow trends in opinions over many decades.

ANUpoll is collected by the Social Research Centre's panel, Life in AustraliaTM. The Social Research Centre collected data online and through Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) in order to ensure representation from the offline Australian population.

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Researchers

Professor Nicholas Biddle is Associate Director of the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods and Director of the newly created Policy Experiments Lab (http://csrm.cass.anu.edu.au/pelab). He has a Bachelor of Economics (Hons.) from the University of Sydney and a Master of Education from Monash University. He also has a PhD in Public Policy from the ANU where he wrote his thesis on the benefits of and participation in education of Indigenous Australians. He previously held a Senior Research Officer and Assistant Director position in the Methodology Division of the Australian Bureau of Statistics and is currently a Fellow of the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute.

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Associate Professor Ben Edwards is a Senior Fellow at the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods. An expert in longitudinal and life course studies and quantitative social scientist, Ben focuses on public policy research in the area of child and adolescent development, informal carers, intergenerational impacts of trauma (e.g. veterans, refugees) and natural disasters (e.g. drought, bushfires, cumulative disasters). He is a member of scientific advisory groups for the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, Longitudinal Survey of Australian Youth, Generation Victoria and a longitudinal cohort study in the Philippines. Ben has advised the OECD, United Nations and Australian Federal and State Government departments in designing longitudinal studies and evaluations, child welfare, non-cognitive skills, and crime prevention.

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Professor Matthew Gray is Director of the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods. Previous positions include Director of the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Director of Research for the College of Arts and Social Sciences and Deputy Director of the Australian Institute of Family Studies (2005–2010). He has published research on a wide range of social and economic policy issues including those related to Indigenous Australians. He has particular expertise in work and family issues, labour economics, social capital and social inclusion, measuring wellbeing, the economic consequences of divorce, child support, and social and economic policy development. He has undertaken extensive work on economic policy issues involving Indigenous Australians, including health status, labour market outcomes, poverty and the CDEP scheme.

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Kate Sollis is a Research Officer and PhD Candidate at the ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods. Her background is in statistics and social policy, with a particular interest in the measurement of wellbeing. She has previously worked as a Research Officer at ARACY (The Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth) and the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

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Citation

Biddle, Nicholas; Edwards, Ben; Gray, Matthew; Sollis, Kate, 2020, “ANU Poll 2020: COVID-19 attitudes and behaviours, Wave 2 (May)”, doi:10.26193/GNEHCQ, ADA Dataverse, V1

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