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Defined as the adult population, 18 years and
over.
7 Productivity Commission, Australia’s Gambling
Industries: Draft Report, 1999. The Productivity
Commission’s final report also provided
estimates for NSW and South Australia.
kpmgConsulting Victorian Casino and Gaming
Authority
Report of the 1999 Longitudinal
Community Impact Study: Main Report
September 2000
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whilst a 10 per cent increase in EGM numbers has
the same proportionate effect on
gaming expenditure in any region of Victoria,
the absolute impact varies. There are also
(empirically verifiable) structural differences
in the relationship between net gaming
expenditure, the number of EGMs, and the number
of hotels and clubs with gaming
machines, from one region to the next. This
means that a given number of poker
machines and venues will lead to different
levels of gaming expenditure per adult from
one region to the next. This indicates that
there are other factors, not included in our
model, that explain differences in gaming
expenditure between regions;
on average, the opening of a new “pokies” club
(or the introduction of EGMs to an
existing non-gaming venue) holding the number of
EGMs in the region constant, causes
a $0.50 increase in quarterly per capita gaming
expenditure in the region in question.
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