This statistic displays the use of social media to access local content in Australia in 2016, by age group. During the survey period, around 52 percent of respondents aged between 18 and 24 used social media to access information about local community events in Australia, compared to only five percent of respondents aged 65 years and older.
Use of social media to access local content in Australia in 2016, by age group
Regional Australians who did not have access to metropoitan television
Method of interview
Computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI)
Supplementary notes
The question was phrased by the source as follows: "for each of the following types of local content, please tell me what you use to get this kind of information. Would it be TV, radio, a local newspaper, the internet or something else?"
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Australian Communications and Media Authority. (May 15, 2017). Use of social media to access local content in Australia in 2016, by age group [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved November 13, 2024, from https://www-statista-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/statistics/715336/australia-social-media-use-to-access-local-content-by-age/
Australian Communications and Media Authority. "Use of social media to access local content in Australia in 2016, by age group." Chart. May 15, 2017. Statista. Accessed November 13, 2024. https://www-statista-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/statistics/715336/australia-social-media-use-to-access-local-content-by-age/
Australian Communications and Media Authority. (2017). Use of social media to access local content in Australia in 2016, by age group. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: November 13, 2024. https://www-statista-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/statistics/715336/australia-social-media-use-to-access-local-content-by-age/
Australian Communications and Media Authority. "Use of Social Media to Access Local Content in Australia in 2016, by Age Group." Statista, Statista Inc., 15 May 2017, https://www-statista-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/statistics/715336/australia-social-media-use-to-access-local-content-by-age/
Australian Communications and Media Authority, Use of social media to access local content in Australia in 2016, by age group Statista, https://www-statista-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/statistics/715336/australia-social-media-use-to-access-local-content-by-age/ (last visited November 13, 2024)
Use of social media to access local content in Australia in 2016, by age group [Graph], Australian Communications and Media Authority, May 15, 2017. [Online]. Available: https://www-statista-com.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/statistics/715336/australia-social-media-use-to-access-local-content-by-age/
