Name: Chile: reliance on WhatsApp as news source 2019, by age
Creator: Statista

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This statistic displays the share of news consumers who used WhatsApp as a source of news in Chile in 2019, by age group. During the survey, it was found that most news consumers that used WhatsApp as a source of news in Chile were individuals aged 55 or older, with a penetration of 54 percent.

Share of news consumers who used WhatsApp as a source of news in Chile in 2019, by age group

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Release date

June 2019

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Region

Chile

Survey time period

End of January/beginning of February 2018

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Sample size: 2,008

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

The source did not provide information on the age of the respondents.
The source also made the following remarks:
1. „As this survey deals with news consumption, we filtered out anyone who said that they had not consumed any news in the past month, in order to ensure that irrelevant responses didn’t adversely affect data quality. This category averaged around three percent.“
2. „(…) online samples will tend to under-represent the consumption habits of people who are not online (typically older, less affluent, and with limited formal education). In this sense it is better to think of results as representative of online populations who use news at least once a month. “
3. "Please note that in (...) Chile (...) [the sample tends] to be based more around urban areas, which should be taken into consideration when interpreting results. "