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April 03, 2008

Habits of buying books and reading among young people in 2007 in Extremadura

This morning was presented in the new study Caceres habits of reading and buying books in Extremadura, corresponding to 2007 and focused exclusively on young people between 14 and 24 years, which has been developed in the framework of action of the Observatory Book and Reading in Extremadura by the company Connect Research & Consulting.
This study emerging new data about the reading habits of young people Extremadura, a group that is emerging as a reader-mostly more than 70% declaring read books, and 50.5% of them-frequent readers. These figures are very similar to the rest of Spain, where 73.3% of young readers are considered and a 50.7% frequent readers. It shows how the indisputable importance of the family in developing habits readers: nearly 64% of young readers have parents who are also, at 74.5% and their parents read them small. Another relevant question is the popularity of reading, as a 80% stated that he would like to read more. To learn indicators evolutionary reading habits and buying books of Extremadura in the last two years (2006 2007) is available in addition to the platform indicators that the Observatory has just launched Book and Reading in Extremadura, with the objective to publicize a comparative data relating to the world of books and libraries in this region, among which are also statistics on its network of public libraries. The latest Observatory is the recent publication of the latest issue of its Bulletin, which makes the number twelve, which represents a major change from the past, not only by its model and the expansion of its space, but also for their contents, which make it a magazine now on the world of books and libraries in this community.

---> Automatically translated text by Google Translate. Version without links. See the original post in Spanish in Biblioblog.

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