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Online Gambling in British Columbia: a Descriptive Report on Gambling Participation on the PlayNow.com Platform Lesch, Tilman; Clark, Luke

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This Report describes online gambling participation on the British Columbia Lottery Corporation’s PlayNow.com platform, by BC residents in June 2015. Data were provided to the Centre for Gambling Research at UBC (PI: Dr Luke Clark) by BCLC, in a de-identified format and under a confidentiality agreement, in a project that was funded by the BC Ministry of Finance. In this Report, we describe data for five game categories: lottery, eCasino, sports betting, social games (including Keno), and bingo. We focus on behavioural variables reflecting gambling intensity (e.g. total number of bets, total monthly spend). Analyses include an examination of how participation rates vary across the five game categories, and the distribution in engagement across different game categories, including Pareto analyses that describe the proportion of overall gambling activity attributable to the top 20% most engaged gamblers.

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Title	Online Gambling in British Columbia: a Descriptive Report on Gambling Participation on the PlayNow.com Platform
Creator	Lesch, Tilman; Clark, Luke
Contributor	Clark, Luke
Date Issued	2020-06-16
Description	This Report describes online gambling participation on the British Columbia Lottery Corporation’s PlayNow.com platform, by BC residents in June 2015. Data were provided to the Centre for Gambling Research at UBC (PI: Dr Luke Clark) by BCLC, in a de-identified format and under a confidentiality agreement, in a project that was funded by the BC Ministry of Finance. In this Report, we describe data for five game categories: lottery, eCasino, sports betting, social games (including Keno), and bingo. We focus on behavioural variables reflecting gambling intensity (e.g. total number of bets, total monthly spend). Analyses include an examination of how participation rates vary across the five game categories, and the distribution in engagement across different game categories, including Pareto analyses that describe the proportion of overall gambling activity attributable to the top 20% most engaged gamblers.
Subject	Social Sciences; online gambling; behavioural tracking; problem gambling; gambling harm
Geographic Location	BC
Type	Dataset
Date Available	2020-06-16
Provider	University of British Columbia Library
License	CC BY-NC 4.0
DOI	10.14288/1.0391892
URI	https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/LU84ZE
Publisher DOI	https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/LU84ZE
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Country	Canada
Aggregated Source Repository	Dataverse

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