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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

British Social Attitudes Survey, 2015

Variable Details

VariableWNwSite1
LabelWhich news website do you visit most often?
Question text Which news or newspaper website do you visit most often?
Responses
1 BBC News 1156
2 ITV/ITN News 22
3 Channel 4 News 2
4 Sky News 158
5 Reuters 5
6 Daily Express/Sunday Express 5
7 Daily Mail or Mail Online/Mail on Sunday (NOT Sunday Mail) 275
8 Daily Mirror/Sunday Mirror 45
9 Daily Star 2
10 The Sun/Sun on Sunday (NOT SundaySun) 40
11 Daily Record/Sunday Mail 8
12 Daily Telegraph/The Sunday Telegraph 78
13 Financial Times 5
14 The Guardian/The Observer 153
15 The Independent/The Independent on Sunday/the i 37
16 The Times/The Sunday Times 30
17 Metro 12
18 The People 0
19 The Scotsman/Scotland on Sunday 4
20 The Herald/Sunday Herald 6
21 STV 2
22 Caledonian Mercury 0
23 The Press and Journal 5
24 The Courier/Dundee Courier 5
25 Aggregator news service (e.g. Google/MSN/Virgin/BT/Yahoo/AOL 170
95 Other - UK site (PLEASE WRITE IN) 166
96 Other - Foreign site (PLEASE WRITE IN) 58
97 Other - General (PLEASE WRITE IN) 27
98 Don’t know 32
99 Refusal 3
-2 Schedule not applicable 0
-1 Item not applicable 1817
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationBritish Social Attitudes Survey, 2015
Interviewer InstructionsNOTE: IF MENTIONS LOCAL NEWSPAPER WEBSITES, CODE AS 'Other - UK site'. SITES LIKE MSN, GOOGLE OR YAHOO, CODE AS 'Aggregator news service'.
UniverseLocation of units of observation: National;Population: Adults (18 and over) living in private households in Great Britain (excluding the 'crofting counties' north of the Caledonian Canal).<br>
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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