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

ballots	years
A/B/-	2016, 2018
A/B/C	2008
B/C/-	2006, 2012, 2014
C/-/-	2010

Overview

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

Counts by year:

year	iap	newspaper	magazines	the internet	books/other printed material	tv	radio	government agencies	family	friends/colleagues	other	don't know	no answer	not available in this year	Total
2006	2646	446	20	253	9	916	131	3	33	33	15	3	2	-	4510
2008	518	286	16	310	8	741	93	2	21	20	3	2	3	-	2023
2010	1761	45	1	62	3	144	19	1	1	7	-	-	-	-	2044
2012	972	121	6	299	5	476	54	1	17	13	2	4	4	-	1974
2014	1299	134	6	420	4	550	75	3	25	20	1	1	-	-	2538
2016	1477	110	7	601	4	532	65	1	29	25	12	-	4	-	2867
2018	1173	79	2	539	5	422	69	4	30	22	2	1	-	-	2348
Total	9846	1221	58	2484	38	3781	506	15	156	140	35	11	13	0	18304