Construction and Preliminary Applying on the Sports Lottery Sales Composite Index in China

Based on the methods of constructing Composite Evaluation Index at home and abroard,and complying with related theories in lottery,summarizing the lottery sales data in 6branch dimesions(sales amount;annual increase rate,density,public fund,penetration and shares)across provinces and years,this paper builds the Composite Sales Index in China Lottery Industry by setting proper criterion and weights.A strict robust test on this index is run and passed.As we can see,while it is turning from deficient to appropriate and even excessive,the lottery sales in China become increasingly regressively unfair and the funding efficiency from lottery drops year by year.Compared to China Taiwan and USA,the lottery sales suitability in China Mainland is not so satisfactory.Sports lottery falls behind welfare lottery in sales but is superior to the latter in social welfare for higher levels.In order to improve the lottery sales suitability in China,related goverment sectors should pay more attention to the exploitation index;educate disadvantaged groups to bet healthily;restrict and cultivate some provinces and create new lottery types and playing methods.As for elevating the competitiveness of sports lottery,its issuer should build up measurements to prevent and control the risk;complete strategies to cope with crises;avoid heavily dependence on Totto;adjust the rules of Lotto and bring out new playing methods for Numbers.