GVU's Seventh WWW User Survey Politic Graphs

Primary Sources of Political Information

Notes:

For this question, respondents could check more than one answer. The primary places that people get political information from are: local paper (63.2%), network TV (56.2%), online news (54.5%), and TV news channels (CNN, MSNBC, etc.) (46.8%). The only notable change from the Sixth survey is that the percentage using TV news channels dropped from 52.3% to 46.8%. As in all previous surveys, national newspapers are the primary source of political information for European respondents. Women and older respondents are more likely to cite local papers and network TV as primary sources.

Table of Data for All Categories

Primary Sources of Political Information	All	Male	Female	USA	Europe	19-25	26-50	50+
Local Paper	7936.00 63.26%	5199.00 61.40%	2669.00 67.52%	6677.00 66.47%	263.00 32.63%	1262.00 56.74%	4691.00 62.19%	1349.00 75.66%
Magazines	5608.00 44.70%	3739.00 44.15%	1820.00 46.04%	4562.00 45.42%	305.00 37.84%	999.00 44.92%	3246.00 43.03%	847.00 47.50%
National Paper	4506.00 35.92%	3194.00 37.72%	1265.00 32.00%	3032.00 30.18%	588.00 72.95%	885.00 39.79%	2579.00 34.19%	636.00 35.67%
Network TV News	7044.00 56.15%	4464.00 52.72%	2506.00 63.39%	5577.00 55.52%	431.00 53.47%	1134.00 50.99%	4159.00 55.14%	1188.00 66.63%
News Radio	4284.00 34.15%	3036.00 35.85%	1210.00 30.61%	3631.00 36.15%	209.00 25.93%	568.00 25.54%	2807.00 37.21%	633.00 35.50%
Offline Conversation	4407.00 35.13%	2936.00 34.67%	1440.00 36.43%	3574.00 35.58%	273.00 33.87%	925.00 41.59%	2646.00 35.08%	438.00 24.57%
Online Conversation	1074.00 8.56%	777.00 9.18%	289.00 7.31%	879.00 8.75%	68.00 8.44%	239.00 10.75%	615.00 8.15%	108.00 6.06%
Online News	6837.00 54.50%	4845.00 57.22%	1928.00 48.77%	5725.00 56.99%	366.00 45.41%	1199.00 53.91%	4187.00 55.51%	971.00 54.46%
Professional Journals	1825.00 14.55%	1269.00 14.99%	539.00 13.64%	1440.00 14.34%	136.00 16.87%	241.00 10.84%	1176.00 15.59%	306.00 17.16%
TV News Channels	5866.00 46.76%	3924.00 46.34%	1889.00 47.79%	4941.00 49.19%	265.00 32.88%	952.00 42.81%	3479.00 46.12%	1009.00 56.59%
Talk Radio	3111.00 24.80%	2181.00 25.76%	901.00 22.79%	2558.00 25.47%	161.00 19.98%	477.00 21.45%	1931.00 25.60%	460.00 25.80%

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GVU's WWW Surveying Team
Graphics, Visualization, & Usability Center
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0280