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News consumption patterns in Iceland


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Use of platforms to access news in the previous week, by country (per cent)

Iceland Denmark Finland Norway Sweden RDNR*
Television 77.0 71.6 73.4 68.5 69.5 73.2
Online news 74.4 70.5 82.0 75.8 77.5 67.8
Social media 66.4 54.4 46.7 55.0 53.8 57.0
Print newspaper 56.9 25.6 47.4 36.5 38.9 39.5

Use of platforms as main source to access news, by country (per cent)

Iceland Denmark Finland Norway Sweden RDNR*
Television 28.1 43.9 36.6 39.2 33.2 44.8
Online news 47.9 36.8 42.7 43.3 44.9 29.3
Social media 13.9 11.7 8.7 11.8 11.6 16.8
Print newspaper 10.1 7.6 12.1 5.7 10.3 9.2

Use of platforms as a main source of news access, by age

Mean age Conf. low Conf. high
Television 61.27 59.54 63.00
Online news 45.06 43.75 46.37
Social media 42.92 40.48 45.35
Print newspaper 59.27 56.40 62.15

People accessing news several times a day, by country

Percentage
Iceland 87
Denmark 68
Finland 77
Norway 72
Sweden 85
RDNR (Nordic excl.) 65

Average age difference between users of platforms as main sources of news access

Mean difference Conf. low Conf. high p-value
Printed newspaper–Online news 14.21 10.07 18.35 0
Television–Online news 16.20 13.36 19.05 0
Printed newspaper–Social media −16.35 −21.29 −11.41 0
Television–Social media 18.35 14.43 22.27 0

Frequency of news access by interest, age, and gender (per cent)

Frequently Seldom p-value
Interest in news < .001
  extremely/very interested 71 27
  somewhat interested 26 48
  limited/no interest 3 25
Age (mean (SD)) = .132
Gender (2)* < .001

Impact of news interest, age, and gender on news access

Estimate Conf. low Conf. high p-value
(Intercept) 3.720 2.937 4.542 .000
Somewhat interested −1.474 −1.913 −1.048 .000
Limited/no interest −3.012 −3.615 −2.423 .000
Age (mean (SD)) 0.006 0.018 0.006 .316
Gender (2)* 0.838 −1.266 0.427 .000

Participation in news, by country (per cent)

Iceland Denmark Finland Norway Sweden RDNR*
Talk with friends & colleagues about a news story (face to face) 61 48 39 44 49 36
Talk online with friends & colleagues about a news story (e.g., by e-mail, social media, or instant messenger) 25 16 15 18 14 18
Share a news story via social network (e.g., Facebook or Twitter) 23 20 18 21 22 27
Vote in an online poll via a news site or social network 18 11 12 15 14 18
Rate, like, or favourite a news story 12 19 15 10 11 21
Comment on a news story in a social network (e.g., Facebook or Twitter) 7 11 13 16 18 20
Post or send a news-related picture or video to a social network site or news website 6 6 6 7 7 11
Share a news story via e-mail 5 6 6 8 7 13
Take part in a campaign or group based around a news subject 5 2 4 5 5 6
Comment on a news story on a news website 4 5 7 8 7 10
Write a blog on a news or political issue 1 1 1 2 1 3
None of these 23 32 36 32 31 27

Individual factors influencing news interest

Estimate Conf. low Conf. high p-value
(Intercept) −0.438 −1.605 0.758 .465
Age 0.042 0.024 0.061 .000
Tables 0.698 −0.107 1.463 .079
Tertiary education 1.313 0.408 2.196 .004
Gender (2)* −0.172 −0.808 0.449 .590
Medium income 0.616 −0.084 1.310 .082
High income 0.493 −0.451 1.489 .315
eISSN:
2001-5119
Sprache:
Englisch
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Sozialwissenschaften, Kommunikationswissenschaften, Massenkommunikation, Kommunikation in Politik und Öffentlichkeit