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Table 5 Household expenditure on all gambling activities by income groups, 2007

	All households	Reporting households	Percentage reporting¹	All households	Reporting households
	Average expenditure		Percentage reporting¹	Gaming as percent of total income
	$		%
Income after tax	336	646	52	0.5	0.8
Less than $20,000	229	678	34	1.7	4.8
$20,000 to $39,999	296	602	49	1.0	2.0
$40,000 to $59,999	320	587	55	0.6	1.2
$60,000 to $79,999	340	558	61	0.5	0.8
$80,000 and over	465	798	58	0.4	0.7
1. New screening questions were added in 2007 to reduce response burden, but for some categories, including games of chance, the response rate was lower than expected. These screening questions will be modified for 2008. See catalogue no. 62F0026M, no. 1 for more details. Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Household Spending.