Table 3.

Perceived benefit and harm of gambling to society for interactive and non-interactive gamblers (N = 1,924)

Perceived benefit and harm of gambling	Interactive gamblers		Non-interactive gamblers
	N	%	N	%
The harm far outweighs the benefits	341	33.3	422	46.9*
The harm somewhat outweighs the benefits	357	34.8	277	30.8
The benefits are about equal to the harm	207	20.2	152	16.9
The benefits somewhat outweigh the harm	82	8.0*	28	3.1
The benefits far outweigh the harm	38	3.7	20	2.2
χ2 (4, N = 1,924) = 51.18, p < 0.001, Φ = 0.16

Weighted by product of design and post-stratification weights. The weights were normed so that total N = 1,980. The total N is different due to rounding and refused responses