Main source of information about events in the news

newsfrom

Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question We are interested in how people get information about events in the news. Where do you get most of your information about current news events – newspapers, magazines, the Internet, books or other printed materials, TV, radio, government agencies, family, friends, colleagues, or some other source?

Values

• 1 newspaper

• 2 magazines

• 3 the internet

• 4 books/other printed material

• 5 tv

• 6 radio

• 7 government agencies

• 8 family

• 9 friends/colleagues

• 10 other

• NA(d) don't know / NA(i) iap / NA(j) I don't have a job / NA(m) dk, na, iap / NA(n) no answer / NA(p) not imputable / NA(r) refused / NA(s) skipped on web / NA(u) uncodeable / NA(x) not available in this release / NA(y) not available in this year / NA(z) see codebook

Question Years and Ballots

year	ballots	availability
2006	B/C/-	partial
2008	A/B/C	full
2010	C/-/-	partial
2012	B/C/-	partial
2014	B/C/-	partial
2016	A/B/-	partial
2018	A/B/-	partial

Link at the GSS

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for newsfrom.

See also

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