Table 2.
The percentage of each demographic group by their self-reported frequency of using any social media each day.
| Percentage of group using social media at each frequency | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | More than 10 times a day N = 1576 (39%)a | 2–10 times a day N = 2144 (53%)a | Once a day or less N = 356 (8.7%)a | p-valueb |
| Sex | <0.001 | |||
| Female | 40 | 53 | 7.1 | |
| Male | 35 | 53 | 12 | |
| Ethnicity | 0.4 | |||
| Ethnic Minority Groups | 35 | 58 | 6.8 | |
| White | 39 | 52 | 9.0 | |
| Unknown | 41 | 52 | 7.2 | |
| A Levels | 0.3 | |||
| No | 38 | 52 | 9.9 | |
| Yes | 38 | 54 | 7.9 | |
| Unknown | 39 | 51 | 9.6 | |
| Parental Employment Class | 0.5 | |||
| Non-manual | 38 | 53 | 9.1 | |
| Manual | 41 | 51 | 8.0 | |
| Unknown | 39 | 52 | 8.3 | |
a%.
bPearson’s chi-squared test.