Australia - news literacy by education level 2018

The statistic presents the news literacy in Australia as of February 2018, by education level. During the survey period, around 40 percent of respondents who had a high school or lower level of education in Australia seemed to have low news literacy.

News literacy in Australia as of February 2018, by education level

Education level	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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