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Parental control over children's media consumption in the U.S. in 2019
Percentage of parents placing limits on children's media consumption in the United States in 2019, by medium
by Amy Watson,
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Jul 3, 2019
The statistic presents data on parental control over children's media consumption in the United States. In 2019, 49 percent of surveyed parents stated they placed time limits on video game playing.
Percentage of parents placing limits on children's media consumption in the United States in 2019, by medium
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by Amy Watson,
last edited
Jul 3, 2019
The statistic presents data on parental control over children's media consumption in the United States. In 2019, 49 percent of surveyed parents stated they placed time limits on video game playing.
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- May 2019
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- United States
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- 2019
- Number of respondents
- n = 4,000
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- nationally representative households
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- The source does not provide detailed information regarding the questions and possible answers of the survey. The wording chosen here might therefore differ slightly from the wording of the survey.
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- United States
- Survey time period
- 2019
- Number of respondents
- n = 4,000
- Special properties
- nationally representative households
- Supplementary notes
- The source does not provide detailed information regarding the questions and possible answers of the survey. The wording chosen here might therefore differ slightly from the wording of the survey.
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- Share of daily screen time spent with selected devices among 0- to 8-year-olds in the United States in 2017Share of time spent with selected media devices among U.S. children 2017
- Parents’ views about children’s media in the United States in 2017Views about children’s media among U.S. parents 2017
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- Media devices owned by children in the United States as of January 2018
- Media devices owned by children in the United States as of January 2018, by household income
- Daily time spent with selected devices among 0- to 8-year-olds in the United States in 2017, by age (in minutes)
- Share of daily screen time spent with selected devices among 0- to 8-year-olds in the United States in 2017
- Parents’ views about children’s media in the United States in 2017
- Parents’ views about the effects of media on children in the United States in 2017
- Percentage of parents placing limits on children's media consumption in the United States in 2019, by medium
- Leading radio formats among 6 to 11-year-olds in the United States in 2017
- Leading radio formats among 12 to 17-year-olds in the United States in 2017
- Weekly time 12- to 17-year-olds spend watching TV in the United States in 1st quarter 2018, by source (in minutes)
- Distribution of daily video content consumption among teenagers in the United States from fall 2015 to fall 2018, by platform
- Frequency of television consumption among children in the United States from 2011 to 2017
- Number of hours per week spent streaming content on connected TV among children in the United States in 2016 and 2018
- Number of tickets sold for kids fiction movies at the North American box office from 1995 to 2018 (in millions)
- Top-grossing kids fiction movies at the North American box office from 1995 to 2019 (in million U.S. dollars)
- Most successful kids fiction movies at the North American box office in 2018, by number of tickets sold (in millions)
- Top-grossing PG movies in North America from 1995 to 2019 (in million U.S. dollars)
- Domestic box office market share of PG movies from 1995 to 2018
- Most successful PG movies in North America in 2018, by number of tickets sold (in millions)
- Top-grossing animated movies at the North American box office from 1980 to 2019 (in million U.S. dollars)
- Estimated children's book publishing revenue in the United States from 2010 to 2017 (in billion U.S. dollars)
- Best-selling paperback frontlist children's books in the United States in 2017 (in 1,000s)
- Licensed children's book sales as share of market value in the United States in 2018
- Number of classroom magazines published by Scholastic in fiscal years 2014 to 2018
- Scholastic's classroom magazine circulation in fiscal years 2014 to 2018 (in millions)
- Most popular children's magazines in the United States as of October 2017, by circulation (in millions)
- Most popular teen magazines on Twitter worldwide as of February 2017, by number of followers (in thousands)
- Frequency with which a child reads or is read to in the United States from 2011 to 2017
- Share of parents who started reading aloud to their child at home when the child was less than one year old in the United States from 2014 to 2018
- Average daily time spent on social media among teens and young adults worldwide from 1st quarter to 3rd quarter 2017, by region (in minutes)
- Average amount of screen time that parents allow their child a day in the United States as of January 2018
- Share of adults who have taken steps to limit the amount of screen time their child is allowed in the United States as of January 2018
- Distribution of parental control notifications during child online usage from May 2018 to May 2019
- Share of websites visited by children in the adult content category in selected countries from May 2018 to May 2019
- Share of websites visited by children in the alcohol, tobacco, and drugs content category in selected countries from May 2018 to May 2019
- Most popular children-themed YouTube channels as of April 2019, ranked by number of subscribers (in millions)
- Most trusted news sources among children and teenagers in the United States as of January 2017, by age group
- Share of children and teenagers who have shared a fake news story online in the United States as of January 2017
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- Media types consumed when home alone in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2012
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