* The original survey question was "Please think about the hours that you spend game playing in a typical week –so both weekdays and at the weekend... How many hours in a typical week would you say you play games?" (Unprompted responses) ** Date of most recent survey was October to November 2014. *** n (2012) = 551; n (2013) = 604; n (2014) = 743; n (2015) = 654.
Data for years previous to 2015 were published earlier by the source.
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