Table 3.
Population prevalence and problem and problem or moderate risk gambling prevalence by non-EGM gambling (but gambles), annual, monthly and weekly EGM gambling, 2005 and 2015
| Population prevalence | Problem/MR gamblera | Problem gamblera | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % (SE) | Population (N) | % (SE) | Population (N) | % (SE) | Population (N) | |
| 2005 survey | ||||||
| Non-EGM gamblerb | 73.0 (1.5) | 100,918 | 0.7 (0.3) | 733 | 0.02 (0.02) | 24 |
| EGM Gamblerc | 27.0 (1.5) | 37,307 | 12.0 (1.6) | 4492 | 4.0 (2.0) | 1500 |
| EGM 1–3 times per month | 6.5 (0.8) | 9019 | 19.4 (5.0) | 1753 | 7.8 (1.5) | 701 |
| EGM Weekly or more | 2.5 (0.3) | 3391 | 44.1 (5.2) | 1494 | 19.0 (3.8) | 645 |
| 2015 survey | ||||||
| Non-EGM gamblerb | 77.1 (1.3) | 136,345 | 1.5 (0.5) | 2067 | 0.07 (0.05) | 95 |
| EGM Gamblerc | 22.9 (1.3) | 40,571 | 10.5 (1.8) | 4268 | 2.7 (0.9) | 1111 |
| EGM 1–3 times per month | 2.7 (0.4) | 4784 | 24.8 (7.4) | 1187 | 13.7 (6.4) | 654 |
| EGM Weekly or more | 1.4 (0.3) | 2498 | 52.8 (9.1) | 1320 | 13.3 (6.3) | 333 |
a 2005 annual and monthly problem/moderate risk (MR) gambling estimates adjusted for bias caused by only sampling regular gamblers in the 2005 survey: 2015 proportion of monthly and less than monthly EGM gamblers that were not classified as problem/moderate risk gamblers was applied to the 2005 EGM participation data; b Includes everyone who gambled in the year before the survey, but did not gamble on EGMs; c Includes all people that gambled on an EGM once or more in the year before the survey
Sources: 2005 NT Gambling Prevalence Survey and 2015 NT Gambling Prevalence and Wellbeing Survey