This report presents descriptive results showing New Zealanders' participation in gambling activities over the 12 months prior to the 2010 Health and Lifestyles Survey. It compares these findings to the 2006/07 Gaming and Betting Activities Survey and the 2008 Health and Lifestyles Survey, where possible.
Methodology
The 2010 Health and Lifestyles Survey (HLS) is a nationally-representative in-home survey monitoring health behaviours and attitudes of New Zealand residents aged 15 years and over. The gambling section of the questionnaire was designed to compare with the 2006/07 Gaming and Betting Activities Survey, a benchmark survey carried out prior to the Health Sponsorship Council’s (HSC’s) development of a national health promotion programme to reduce gambling harm. Some of the characteristics of particular interest when looking at gambling participation included frequency of participation in continuous and non-continuous forms of gambling and individual risk of gambling problems, as defined by an international problem gambling screen.