More College Males Gamble Online

Nearly 16 percent of college-aged men use online gambling sites, an increase of almost 12 percent in two years, the National Annenberg Survey of Youth reports.

Businessweek has more:

Projected on a national basis, the survey findings suggest that more than 400,000 college-aged males (18 to 22) go online to gamble at least once a week and more than 1.7 million do so at least once a month. About 530,000 high school-aged males go online to gamble once a month, the researchers calculated.

"The dramatic increase in use of online gambling by college-aged male youth indicates that payment restrictions on such sites are no longer a barrier to young people," ACI director Dan Romer said in an institute news release.

The survey also revealed that more high school females gamble online than in 2008 -- the group saw its use of sites jump from half a percent to 1.5 percent. According to CasinoGamblingWeb.com, women have been a "driving force" behind the increased use of online poker sites in the U.S.

The results were gathered via telephone survey.

Do you gamble online? What do you think of these findings? Weigh in below.

Comments

[ripbobgnarly]

06:27 PM on 10/20/2010

This has a lot to do with the amount of exposure poker has gotten on TV in the past few years.

[ixington]

02:36 PM on 10/20/2010

most college aged males don't own a landline. Telephone polling will really skew these results. Tech-savvy students are less likely to own a landline, and likely more likely to gamble online. I'd wager that the proportion of college students who gamble is much, much higher than the numbers derived here.

[black series]

12:59 PM on 10/20/2010

Gambling is for pimps. Real fun is in stock market.