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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Wellcome Trust Monitor 2, 2012

Variable Details

VariableWebMain
LabelR main website you use for news and current affairs
Responses
1 BBC/ BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news 150
2 Sky/Sky News - http://news.sky.com 22
3 CNN - www.cnn.com 0
4 ITN - www.itn.co.uk 4
5 The Guardian - www.guardian.co.uk 14
6 The Daily Mail - www.dailymail.co.uk 8
7 The Daily Telegraph - www.telegraph.co.uk 2
8 The Times - www.thetimes.co.uk 2
9 The Sun - www.thesun.co.uk 7
10 The Financial Times- www.ft.com 2
11 The Independent - www.independent.co.uk 2
12 Daily Mirror - www.mirror.co.uk 1
13 Daily Express - www.dailyexpress.co.uk 0
14 Daily Star - www.dailystar.co.uk 0
15 Local newspaper website 2
16 Reuters - http://uk.reuters.com 1
17 Yahoo - http://uk.yahoo.com 18
18 Google News - http://news.google.co.uk 56
19 MSN - http://uk.msn.com 12
20 AOL - www.aol.co.uk 6
21 An online only magazine e.g. The Huffington Post or The Dail 0
22 Blogs 3
23 No main source 5
24 Other 6
25 0
26 0
27 0
98 Refused 340
99 Dont know 0
-1 Item not applicable 1193
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationWellcome Trust Monitor 2, 2012
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