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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

British Social Attitudes Survey, 2016

Variable Details

VariableWNwSite2
LabelWhich news website do you visit next most often?
Question text And which news or newspaper website do you visit next most often?
Responses
0 None 635
1 BBC News 170
2 ITV/ITN News 63
3 Channel 4 News 12
4 Sky News 134
5 Reuters 9
6 Daily Express/Sunday Express 9
7 Daily Mail or Mail Online/Mail on Sunday (NOT Sunday Mail) 69
8 Daily Mirror/Sunday Mirror 31
9 Daily Star 4
10 The Sun/Sun on Sunday (NOT Sunday Sun) 31
11 Daily Record/Sunday Mail 5
12 Daily Telegraph/The Sunday Telegraph 50
13 Financial Times 10
14 The Guardian/The Observer 119
15 The Independent/The Independent on Sunday/the i 34
16 The Times/The Sunday Times 23
17 Metro 6
18 The People 1
19 The Scotsman/Scotland on Sunday 3
20 The Herald/Sunday Herald 1
21 STV 8
22 Caledonian Mercury 0
23 The Press & Journal 0
24 The Courier/Dundee Courier 0
25 Aggregator news service (e.g. Google/MSN/Virgin/BT/Yahoo/AOL 70
95 Other - UK site (PLEASE WRITE IN) 95
96 Other - Foreign site (PLEASE WRITE IN) 53
97 Other - General (PLEASE WRITE IN) 26
98 Don't Know 17
99 Refusal 0
-2 Schedule not applicable 0
-1 Item not applicable 1254
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationBritish Social Attitudes Survey, 2016
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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