Nova Scotia Gaming Activity: Revenue and Wager Statistics

Five distinct gaming activities—Atlantic Lottery Corporation products, Casino Nova Scotia, charitable bingo, charitable ticket lotteries, and video lottery terminals—are tracked by the provincial regulator. The dataset contains annual financial metrics, including Total Wager, Net Revenue, and Provincial Revenue, for each activity. This data supports oversight of legal gaming's economic impact in Nova Scotia.

Use Cases

• Analyzing year-over-year trends in Provincial Revenue and Net Revenue for each Gaming Activity.
• Comparing the financial scale of different activities using Total Wager and Commercial Revenue columns.
• Assessing the distribution of proceeds to charitable causes via the Charitable Revenue column.
• Evaluating operational efficiency by examining Operating Expenses against Prizes paid out.

Strengths

• Provides a detailed breakdown across five distinct Gaming Activity categories.
• Contains multiple key financial metrics, including Total Wager, Net Revenue, and Provincial Revenue.
• Appears on multiple government platforms (Socrata and Open Canada), indicating official provenance.

Limitations

• Critical metadata is inconsistent: one source lists a last update of 2026-04-17, another lists 2025-11-20.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown across all sources, obscuring its scale.
• Column descriptions are absent, requiring inference from names like 'Operating Expenses' and 'Prizes'.

Provenance

Source

Nova Scotia Alcohol, Gaming, Fuel and Tobacco Division, via data.novascotia.ca.

Collection Method

Likely compiled from mandatory regulatory reporting by licensed gaming operators.

Time Range

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Freshness

2026-04 17 15:33:56.356844 (most recent date cited, though it appears to be a future date)

Geography

Province of Nova Scotia, Canada.