People’s Participation in and Attitudes towards Gaming, 1985-2000: Final results of the 2000 survey is the fourth report in a survey series that was first undertaken in 1985, prior to the introduction of Lotto.
The survey has been updated at five-yearly intervals since 1985 with surveys conducted in 1990, 1995 and now 2000. This series has coincided with the introduction of several new gaming activities, such as casinos, sports-betting and New Zealand Lotteries Commission games like Instant Kiwi and TeleBingo. The report series has, in this time, charted the rise and in some cases the fall in participation in gaming activities in New Zealand.
This report details the results of a survey of people’s participation in and attitudes to gaming. A randomly selected sample of 1,500 people aged 15 years and over living in private household were interviewed face-to-face between June and July 2000. The questionnaire was based on previous surveys conducted by the Department of Internal Affairs in 1985, 1990 and 1995.
The survey series also investigates public attitudes to gaming. This research looks at factors that people think should guide gaming legislation, desirability of gaming activities, where the profits from gaming activities go, and definition of worthy causes for the receipt of gaming profits. The series also looks at new forms of gaming, prior to their introduction or up-take in New Zealand. This year, the report looks at the prevalence of Internet-based gaming activity and the public attitudes to Internet-based gaming.