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LESS THAN 10 per cent of secondary school students read newspapers for news articles and they get their news primarily from television and the internet.
New figures released by the Central Statistics Office today recorded the media habits of 7,211 secondary school students who were surveyed as part of the CensusAtSchool study between August 2010 and June 2011. Phase 10 – which focused on their media habits, favourite school subjects and past-times revealed the following:
Television – 39.5 per cent
Internet via a computer – 19 per cent
Talking to friends – 10 per cent
Newspapers – 9 per cent
Radio – 8.5 per cent
Magazines – 5 per cent
Not interested in the news – 4.9 per cent
Other – 4.1 per cent
Other facts picked up by the survey include the popularity of dogs as pets, followed by cats, no pets, other, goldfish and rabbits. (Students’ most popular reason for having a pet was that they were fun to be with, followed to a lesser extent by “I like to cuddle them” and “I like to look after them”.)
Favourite football teams were Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal but 25 per cent of those students surveyed said they had no interest in football.
When asked which hand they write with, 86 per cent of females said they were right-handed, 82 per cent of males said they were right-handed; 11 per cent of females said they were ambidextrous while 15 per cent of males said they were.
For more see the report from the CSO here.
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