Australia - media use preferences local news by age 2016

This statistic displays the preferences of regional residents for media use for local news in Australia in 2016, by age. During the survey period, around 18 percent of the respondents aged between 18 and 39 years stated that social media is favorite source for accessing local news compared to only three percent of the respondents older than 40 years who said the same.

Preferences for media use for local news in Australia in 2016, by age

Characteristic	18-39 years	40 and older
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Release date

May 2017

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Region

Australia

Survey time period

September 26, 2016 to October 19, 2016

Number of respondents

935 (18–39), 1,521 (40+)

Age group

18 years and older

Special properties

Regional Australians who did not have access to metropoitan television

Method of interview

Computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI)

Supplementary notes

The question was phrased by the source as follows: "for each of the following types of local information or content, imagine you could use any source to get this content. Would your most preferred source be TV, radio, local print newspaper, the internet or somewhere else?"

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