Teenagers: frequency of reading books Germany 2022

This statistic shows data on how often teenagers read books in Germany in 2022. That year, 32 percent of German teenagers stated to read books daily or several times a week. 21 percent of respondents did so every one to two weeks.

How often do you read printed books?

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Release date

November 2022

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Region

Germany

Survey time period

June 8 to July 20, 2020; June 1 to July 11, 2021

Number of respondents

1,200 respondents

Age group

12-19 years

Method of interview

Telephone interview

Supplementary notes

JIM is a series of surveys published by the South-West Media Education Research Association (Medienpädagogische Forschungsbund Südwest), which is supported by the Regional Office for Communication Baden-Württemberg (Landesanstalt für Kommunikation Baden-Württemberg (LFK)) and the Regional Office for Media and Communication Rhineland-Palatinate (Landeszentrale für Medien und Kommunikation Rheinlandpfalz (LMK)). The surveys are developed in cooperation with SWR Media Research (SWR Medienforschung), the Association for Newspaper Market Research (Zeitungsmarktforschung Gesellschaft (ZMG)), the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung), as well as its regional offices in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate, and the Reading Foundation (Stiftung Lesen).

The source does not provide information on the original wording used during the survey. Thus, the wording chosen for this statistic may differ slightly from the one in the survey.

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