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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 5.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Commun. 2010;15(Suppl 3):252–263. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2010.522697

Table 2. Characteristics of media use: Non-Hispanic Whites, Hispanics comfortable speaking English, Hispanics not comfortable speaking English, weighted percentages, n=4,599.

Non-Hispanic White Hispanic—more comfortable speaking English Hispanic—less comfortable speaking English
Typical TV use per daya
 1 hour or less 25 18 32
 2–3 hours 51 54 50
 4 hours or more 24 28 18
Typical radio use per daya
 1 hour or less 54 49 66
 2–3 hours 26 27 19
 4 hours or more 21 23 16
Typical Internet use per dayb,c
 No Internet use 35 45 86
 1 hour or less 45 35 7
 2–3 hours 16 13 5
 4 hours or more 4 6 1
Typical weekly newspaper usea,b
 None 15 21 36
 1 day 15 20 25
 2–6 days 30 38 29
 7 days 40 20 10

All values, except for N, are weighted percentages.

a

p≤.05 for comparisons between Hispanics more comfortable speaking English and Hispanics—less comfortable speaking English.

b

p≤.0001.

c

p≤.001 for comparisons between Hispanics more comfortable speaking English and Hispanics less comfortable speaking English.