Australia - news literacy by age 2018

The statistic presents the news literacy in Australia as of February 2018, by age. During the survey period, around 48 percent of respondents 65 years or older in Australia seemed to have low news literacy.

News literacy in Australia as of February 2018, by age

Age group	Very low	Low	High	Very high
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Release date

June 2019

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Region

Australia

Survey time period

January to February 2018

Number of respondents

2,026 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

To determine the level of news literacy, respondents were asked three questions to test their knowledge of the news environment. Those questions about funding to the public broadcaster, who is responsible for writing a press release, and the way Facebook selects news for people, were proven to be important for understanding the context and creation of news. Based on the number of questions answered correctly respondents were ranked from having very low news literacy to very high news literacy:
- 0 correct = very low news literacy
- 1 correct = low news literacy
- 2 correct = high news literacy
- 3 correct = very high news literacy.

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