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February 14, 2008

Habits readers and buying books of the Spanish in 2007

Last week the Federation of Unions of Editors of Spain issued each year as a barometer of habits of reading and buying books in Spain, from 2007. The main novelty this time is the expansion of the sample study to the age group between 10 and 13 years with the aim of extracting information about the children.
While data and purchasing habits of book readers seem to improve with respect last year only comes to correct the decline in the results of 2006. The percentage of people reading (over 14 years) is thus a 56.9% could be regarded frequent readers to 41% of Spaniards. In analyzing the data strip infant improve considerably: 65.5% are frequent readers and 19% casual. As far as buying books deals, a 56.2% of the population said they had bought a book, including text.
The profile of the reader remains related variables such as sex, age, level of education, housing and occupancy levels. Thus, the reader often tends to be female, under 44 years, with secondary or university education, living in a big city (more than one million) and occupied or student, while the reader does not usually men, more than 55 years, with primary education, housewives or retired and live in nuclei fewer than 50,000 inhabitants.
Other aspects are analyzed assistance to libraries, the provision of books in the home, leisure habits and the use of the Internet. The latter point seems to have a close relationship between reading and the Internet, as there are more readers than readers not among Internet users: if 50.8% of the population state to use the Internet when we ceñimos to readers the figure increases by more of 14 percentage points.

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