10% of male students spend ‘significantly more’ on gambling than food shop

An annual student survey in the UK has found that male students who gamble are spending almost as much on their gambling as on the weekly food shop.

The data comes from Ygam and the self-exclusion scheme GamStop and it also finds the participants who gamble are four times more likely to experience gambling harms compared to the general population.

This is the fourth Annual Student Gambling Survey, with male students more likely than females to be in the problem gambling category and their mean spend on gambling is almost 1.7 times higher.