American-Statesman STAFF
The percentage of Texans in the state lottery has fallen to a third study, the lowest ever measured for a new Texas Lottery Commission.
lottery participation has been generally declining total drag of the past 15 years, but the decline in fiscal 2010 - from 41.7 percent to 33.8 percent of the population - the second of the year is back to the year because the Texas Lottery began in 1993. The participation rate fell by 9 percentage points between 2003 and 2004.
Significant decreases were observed in almost every measurement of 2010 lottery participation, according to annual study that looks played on the Pick 3 lotto, instant scratch tickets and other games of chance by the State . Each geographical region of the state play a declining proportion of the population, like most all the games run by the Lotteries Commission.
Overall, the percentage of Texans who play the lottery raised more than half since 1995, when more than 70 percent of Texans games, such as collecting money for state public schools played .
Lottery officials said that the figures are not necessarily a surprise, or even bad news.
Lottery Commissioner J. Winston Krause attributed the decline to the faltering economy and Texans money sense of sound. "People have to play good verdict when it can not and if not, he said.
The greater numbers mean is unclear, complicated by the fact that the total amount of money has kept the Texas Lottery tickets issued regularly.
Total lottery sales in fiscal 2010 were $ 3,740,000,000, or about the same as in the last four years. The games also earns more than $ 1000000000 done for Texas public schools last year on the same contribution in recent years.
Together with the results of the study, the turnover would indicate that fewer people are paying more for tickets.
But researchers do not have enough information to prove that, "said James Granato, Director of the University of Houston Center for Public Policy, which conducted the survey.
The latest figures come at a crucial time for the lottery, the most popular form of the state of legalized gambling. The legislature has the opportunity to help the expansion of gambling in Texas near the budget deficit was as high as $ raised 24000000000 appreciated. If approved, no new games such as slot machines, it would almost certainly be cut in lottery revenue.
A Lotto will be fought because in some states that "everyone now is in a three-hour drive of a casino, while 10 years ago, he was boarding a plane and fly one," said David Gale, executive director of the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries.
The decline in Texas also questions the effectiveness GTECH Corp., the giant gaming company that the Texas Lottery has had since its inception. Members have two letters to lottery officials of the Commission to the Legislature next month, they asked to see writing that the agency receives money from the arrangement.
Gtech, which was about 100 million per year in recent years paid for the operation of games two weeks ago that the winner of a new contract that the company pay less - about $ 83 million per year - but that partnership will continue for at least nine years, and maybe 15 with high-extensions.
The latest figures have been the involvement of the annual survey on the demographic lottery player requires the Agency to file for the Legislature is generated. Some 1,700 residents were interviewed by telephone and asked if Texas Lottery, games and play as often they play and how much to spend. The analysis also players self-reported ethnicity and income. The results were extrapolated for the entire state.
As with previous surveys spend playing the Texas Lottery, participation has shown that, indeed, was generally found at all income levels and education, educational attainment and earning players were proportionately more on lottery tickets.
edexheimer@statesman.com; 445-1774
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