$14.5-billion per year and counting: Canadian gambling statistics

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Author(s): Stevens, Rhys M. G.

Publisher: Critical Gambling Studies

Year Published: 2021

Date Added: March 30, 2022

Resource Type: Blog

This blog post explores the amount of money spent on gambling in Canada per year. The author uses data made available by provincial and territorial gambling regulators and operators. The blog post outlines the author's rationale, methodology, and challenges in compiling the data. The blog post also includes a list of earlier publications on gambling in Canada. The data is available on the Canadian Gambling Statistics (1970-2021) database. The database was created as part of Gambling and Problem Gambling in Canada: A National Study.

Citation: Stevens, R. (2021, June 2). $14.5-billion per year and counting: Canadian gambling statistics. Critical Gambling Studies. Available from: https://doi.org/10.29173/cgs110

DOI: https://doi.org/10.29173/cgs110

Keywords: abstinence ; cross-jurisdictional ; data analytics ; gambling expenditures ; gambling operators ; gambling research ; gambling statistics ; government revenue ; income ; regulators ; revenue

Topics: Information for Policy Makers

Conceptual Framework Factors: Environment - Social and Economic Impacts ; Environment - Economics ; Social - Social Demographics ; Gambling Environment ; Environment - Public Policy

Geographic Coverage: Canada

Source Type: Academic

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Canadian Gambling Statistics