Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of gambling groups

		Non-Gamblers (n = 454)		Low-Risk Gamblers (n = 1340)		At-Risk Gamblers (n = 432)		Problem/Pathological Gamblers (n = 258)
Variables		Total	%	Total	%	Total	%	Total	%	x2	P-value
Race/Ethnicity
African American	Yes	68	14.98	124	9.25	59	13.66	51	19.77	28.8616	<.0001
	No	386	85.02	1216	90.75	373	86.34	207	80.23
Caucasian	Yes	282	62.11	994	74.18	311	71.99	154	59.69	38.5176	<.0001
	No	172	37.89	346	25.82	121	28.01	104	40.31
Asian	Yes	30	6.61	54	4.03	16	3.70	21	8.14	12.2202	0.0067
	No	424	93.39	1286	95.97	416	96.30	237	91.86
Other	Yes	89	19.60	220	16.42	66	15.28	52	20.16	5.1220	0.1631
	No	365	80.40	1120	83.58	366	84.72	206	79.84
Hispanic	Yes	73	17.02	191	14.92	64	15.53	66	27.39	23.1457	<.0001
	No	356	82.98	1089	85.08	348	84.47	175	72.61
Gender
Male		166	36.97	691	52.23	327	76.58	200	79.37	203.1148	<.0001
Female		283	63.03	632	47.77	100	23.42	52	20.63
Grade
9th		115	25.39	388	29.06	145	33.56	79	30.98	17.5467	0.0408
10th		114	25.17	356	26.67	108	25.00	69	27.06
11th		149	32.98	355	26.59	99	22.92	57	22.35
12th		75	16.56	236	17.68	80	18.52	50	19.61
Age
<14		11	2.43	32	2.40	12	2.78	5	1.94	22.3916	0.2151
14		40	8.83	139	10.41	40	9.26	26	10.08
15		101	22.30	333	24.94	127	29.40	62	24.03
16		131	28.92	377	28.24	103	23.84	70	27.13
17		107	23.62	308	23.07	94	21.76	58	22.48
18		52	11.48	134	10.04	46	10.65	28	10.85
>19		11	2.43	12	0.90	10	2.30	9	3.49
Family Structure
One parent		99	22.30	330	25.00	89	21.09	58	23.20	45.6769	<.0001
Two Parent		315	70.95	920	69.70	303	71.84	150	60.00
Other		30	6.76	70	5.30	30	7.11	42	16.80