Gaming machine profits (GMP dashboard)
Dashboard file showing current quarter, and historic data for the numbers of electronic gaming machines (EGMs)and licenced premises in each council area, reported since 2015.
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Last updated: 29 November 2024
Gaming Machine Profits (GMP) Dashboard (data.govt.nz website XLSX and machine-readable formats)
A new Power BI version of the Quarterly GMP dashboard is now available through data.govt.nz. This dashboard will replace the current excel dashboard in future updates: GMP Quarterly Dashboard (data.govt.nz)
The Excel spreadsheet contains four reports. Explanations to help you understand the information, and what it shows, are provided below: Interpreting the data
The dashboard shows the numbers of approved gaming machines licensed to operate at approved venues as at the last day of the current quarter.
This is a 'snapshot' of the current state of affairs at a point in time. It is not conclusive and should be read in the context of the broader dataset.
Contact us if you want up to date information about machine numbers in a district.
Notes and Corrections
As of September 2024, we have added a breakdown of venues by SA1 deprivation ratings for each territorial authority, alongside the existing SA2 deprivation rating breakdown. This currently only includes the June and September 2024 quarters (and all quarters moving forward) as retroactively adding it to older quarters requires a large amount of manual data entry. We have added the SA1 breakdown to show the deprivation breakdown at a much more granular level, as SA1's are much smaller areas. We have found that SA2 could potentially mis-represent the actual deprivation of an area a venue is located in; for example whilst an SA2 could have a medium level of deprivation, the SA1 that a venue is located in could have a high level. For more information on geographic areas, see the following: Statistical standard for geographic areas 2023 (PDF, 765KB, Statistics website)
March 2024 GMP – Correction. We have identified an issue with the March quarter GMP that was included in the March and June 2024 dashboards. Due to a date filtering error, those reports did not include GMP data from 1 January 2024 and territorial authorities were shown as producing less than their actual GMP for the March 2024 quarter. The total GMP excluded was $1,688,608, or 0.7 percent of the total GMP for the March quarter. This has been rectified and the data corrected in the September 2024 published dashboard. We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused.
GMP trends
General insights
Quarterly GMP data for July to September 2024 shows a 0.4 percent nominal increase when compared to the previous quarter, increasing from $262,188,253 to $263,112,477. When adjusted for inflation, this increase is 0.3 percent. Excluding the COVID period of 2020 to 2022 where GMP varied due to lockdowns, this is the smallest increase we have seen between June to September quarters since 2015 when we began reporting in this format.
The rolling 12-month total for GMP has continued to decrease. In nominal terms, it has fallen by 0.9 percent vs. the year ending June 2024, from $1,036,595,242 to $1,027,439,108. When adjusted for inflation this is a 1.5 percent decrease.
The number of venues and EGMs operating at the end of the quarter have continued to drop, with the number of venues decreasing from 991 to 980 and EGMs dropping from 14,109 to 14,046. The average nominal GMP per EGM has risen from $18,583 to $18,732 ($14,240 to $14,255 adjusted for inflation), or an increase of 0.8 percent (0.1 percent adjusted for inflation).
Regional insights
For more detail on these numbers and trends, please see our GMP Dashboard.
Interpreting the data
There are four reports within the Excel version (human readable) of the GMP dashboard:
- Key stats - Key stats about any timeframe or area selected.
- In detail - Dynamic dashboard that allows you to select information you want to see based on time and location.
- Quarterly by council area (or territorial authority) - Dynamic table that allows you to compare GMP, gaming machines and venues by quarter and TA.
- Current quarter licensed venues
- Data - Data that sits behind all the dynamic tables and dashboard.
Two additional sheets provide help for navigating and reading the data:
- Notes to the tables – details what is, and is not, included in the data.
- Contents and directions – instructions for how to navigate the document and extract the information you need. It covers how to:
- use control buttons to manipulate different views
- uncover detail behind the graphs
- troubleshoot.
