Table 1.
Frequency (%) of electronic-media use, stratified for age group, sex, family condition and socio-economic status.
| Total | Age group | Sex | Family condition | Socio-economic status | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (n = 1,025) | 14 years and younger (n = 472) | 15 years and older (n = 553) | Male (n = 500) | Female (n = 525) | Complete (n = 750) | Incomplete (n = 275) | High (n = 581) | Low/middle (n = 444) | |
| Mobile phone | |||||||||
| No mobile phone | 11.0 | 16.3 | 6.5 | 13.4 | 8.8 | 11.3 | 10.2 | 11.2 | 10.9 |
| <5 minutes | 65.9 | 64.2 | 67.3 | 68.2 | 63.6 | 68.9 | 57.5 | 70.2 | 60.1 |
| 6 - 15 minutes | 15.6 | 13.8 | 17.2 | 14.2 | 17.0 | 14.0 | 20.0 | 13.9 | 17.8 |
| 16 - 30 minutes | 4.5 | 3.0 | 5.9 | 2.6 | 6.3 | 3.5 | 7.2 | 3.4 | 5.9 |
| 30 minutes or more | 3.0 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 1.6 | 4.4 | 2.3 | 5.1 | 1.2 | 5.4 |
| p† | 0.0001 | 0.0001 | 0.0001 | 0.0001 | |||||
| Computer/internet | |||||||||
| Never | 13.2 | 18.9 | 8.3 | 12.2 | 14.1 | 11.6 | 17.5 | 10.7 | 16.4 |
| 30 minutes | 33.9 | 39.6 | 28.9 | 31.6 | 36.0 | 34.3 | 32.7 | 35.8 | 31.3 |
| 1 - 2 hours | 38.2 | 31.6 | 43.9 | 39.0 | 37.5 | 39.2 | 35.6 | 40.6 | 35.1 |
| 3 hours or more | 14.7 | 10.0 | 18.8 | 17.2 | 12.4 | 14.9 | 14.2 | 12.9 | 17.1 |
| p | 0.0001 | 0.0204 | 0.0844 | 0.6160 | |||||
| Television/videos | |||||||||
| Never | 5.4 | 4.9 | 5.8 | 5.6 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 6.6 | 7.4 | 2.7 |
| 30 minutes | 29.8 | 31.1 | 28.6 | 28.8 | 30.7 | 30.5 | 27.6 | 33.2 | 25.2 |
| 1 - 2 hours | 51.4 | 51.9 | 51.0 | 53.6 | 49.3 | 53.5 | 48.4 | 52.0 | 50.7 |
| 3 hours or more | 13.5 | 12.1 | 14.6 | 12.0 | 14.9 | 12.0 | 17.5 | 7.4 | 21.4 |
| p | 0.4848 | 0.6874 | 0.3370 | 0.0001 | |||||
| Game consoles | |||||||||
| Never | 72.9 | 64.2 | 80.1 | 58.0 | 86.9 | 73.6 | 70.6 | 76.2 | 68.2 |
| 30 minutes | 16.4 | 22.0 | 11.6 | 21.8 | 11.2 | 16.3 | 16.7 | 14.6 | 18.7 |
| 1 - 2 hours | 8.4 | 11.4 | 5.8 | 15.4 | 1.7 | 8.7 | 7.6 | 7.9 | 9.0 |
| 3 hours or more | 2.4 | 2.3 | 2.5 | 4.8 | 0.2 | 1.5 | 5.1 | 1.2 | 4.1 |
| p | 0.0001 | 0.0001 | 0.0775 | 0.0016 | |||||
| Music | |||||||||
| Never | 8.2 | 12.1 | 4.9 | 10.4 | 6.1 | 9.1 | 5.8 | 7.7 | 8.8 |
| 30 minutes | 29.4 | 36.0 | 23.7 | 32.8 | 26.1 | 31.2 | 24.4 | 30.6 | 27.7 |
| 1 - 2 hours | 30.0 | 28.8 | 31.1 | 27.8 | 32.2 | 30.9 | 27.6 | 32.4 | 27.0 |
| 3 hours or more | 32.4 | 23.1 | 40.3 | 29.0 | 35.6 | 28.8 | 42.2 | 29.3 | 36.5 |
| p | 0.0001 | 0.0003 | 0.0001 | 0.1830 | |||||
| Overall media index‡ | |||||||||
| Never | 1.2 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 1.6 |
| 30 minutes | 2.9 | 4.0 | 2.0 | 1.6 | 4.2 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 2.9 |
| 1 - 2 hours | 28.3 | 31.6 | 25.5 | 23.8 | 32.6 | 28.4 | 28.0 | 32.9 | 22.3 |
| 3 - 4 hours | 32.3 | 30.3 | 34.0 | 32.2 | 32.4 | 32.5 | 31.6 | 31.5 | 33.3 |
| 5 - 6 hours | 23.9 | 22.0 | 25.5 | 27.4 | 20.6 | 24.5 | 22.2 | 23.2 | 24.8 |
| 7 hours or more | 11.4 | 10.6 | 12.1 | 13.6 | 9.3 | 10.7 | 13.5 | 8.6 | 15.1 |
| p | 0.0072 | 0.0001 | 0.8948 | 0.0009 | |||||
† p values of Cochrane-Armitage tests for underlying trends of media use between categories of socio-demographic variables (younger vs. older, male vs. female, complete vs. incomplete family, high vs. low/middle socio-economic status).
‡ The overall media index was estimated by adding up time spent with computer/internet, television/videos and game consoles.