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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Josie Clarke

Twice as many gaming accounts belong to customers in most deprived areas – study

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Participation in online gambling games is disproportionately concentrated in the most deprived areas of Great Britain – with these players more likely to incur heavy losses, a study has found.

Some 29% of gaming accounts are registered to the most deprived areas while 13% come from the least deprived areas, according to The Patterns of Play report, carried out by the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) and the University of Liverpool for the charity GambleAware.

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