The chart compares the three ways in which people of various age profiles in a country acquired news on a daily basis in 2011.
Overall, data suggest that the radio remained the most popular means of obtaining daily information for people of all ages, excluding the 10-17-year-olds, whereas micro-bloging was regarded as the least favorable option.
In detail, getting daily news via social networking sites was quite common for younger individuals, with the identical 80% of the 10-17- and 18-29-year-olds opting for this form of information acquisition. However, this rate was much lower at over 45% in the 30-49-year-olds, while it was about a third and a tenth for the 50-64- and 65+ year-olds, respectively.
Roughly 95 percentage points of 18-29-, 30-49- and 50-64-year-olds used radio broadcasting to have access to daily news, while the 65+ year-olds came a close second, with the share being under 90%. Meanwhile, two-fifth of 10-17-year-olds made use of radio for this purpose.
Micro-bloging was the least preferred option to get news on a daily basis: while the shares of younger people (10-29) were 20% or over, the figures for the remaining age brackets were lower than 20%.
