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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

British Social Attitudes Survey, 2012

Variable Details

VariableWNwSite1
LabelWhich news or newspaper website do you visit most often? :Q253
Question text Which news or newspaper website do you visit most often?
Responses
1 BBC News 734
2 ITV/ITN News 21
3 Channel 4 News 5
4 Sky News 94
5 Reuters 6
6 Daily Express/Sunday Express 5
7 Daily Mail or Mail Online/Mail on Sunday 87
8 Daily Mirror/Sunday Mirror 8
9 Daily Star 3
10 The Sun/Sun on Sunday 29
11 Daily Record/Sunday Mail 4
12 Daily Telegraph/The Sunday Telegraph 42
13 Financial Times 11
14 The Guardian/The Observer 75
15 The Independent/The Independent on Sunday/the i 12
16 The Times/The Sunday Times 28
17 Metro 7
18 The People 1
19 The Scotsman/Scotland on Sunday 1
20 The Herald/Sunday Herald 4
21 STV 3
22 Caledonian Mercury 0
23 The Press & Journal 0
24 The Courier/Dundee Courier 2
94 Aggregator news service (e.g. Google/MSN/Virgin/BT/Yahoo/AOL 201
95 Other - UK site (PLEASE WRITE IN) 90
96 Other - Foreign site (PLEASE WRITE IN) 37
97 Other - General (PLEASE WRITE IN) 19
98 Don't know 14
99 Refusal 2
-1 skip, never looks at news online 1703
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationBritish Social Attitudes Survey, 2012
Interviewer InstructionsNOTE: IF MENTIONS LOCAL NEWSPAPER WEBSITES, CODE AS 'Other - UK site'. SITES LIKE MSN, GOOGLE OR YAHOO, CODE AS 'Aggregator news service'.
UniverseAdults (18 and over) living in private households in Great Britain (excluding the 'crofting counties' north of the Caledonian Canal).<br>;Adults;National
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample;See documentation for each BSA year for full details.
Study TypeRepeated cross-sectional study. The BSA survey is conducted annually.
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