Table 4.
Information source |
Gender |
Age group |
Health literacy |
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Male |
Female |
< 30 |
30–49 |
50–69 |
70 + |
Inadequate |
Adequate |
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n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
Australian official / public broadcaster | 204 | 59.4 | 217 | 59.7 | 89 | 60.5 | 168 | 57.0 | 115 | 59.6 | 49 | 68.1 | 160 | 55.1 | 261 | 62.6 |
Australian Commercial source | 208 | 60.6 | 208 | 57.4 | 85 | 57.9 | 197 | 66.7 | 116 | 59.9 | 19 | 26.6 | 138 | 47.5 | 279 | 66.9 |
Social media | 188 | 54.7 | 209 | 57.6 | 115 | 78.5 | 188 | 63.7 | 77 | 39.8 | 17 | 23.9 | 132 | 45.4 | 265 | 63.7 |
Friends or family living in Australia | 111 | 32.2 | 142 | 38.9 | 44 | 30.0 | 76 | 25.6 | 85 | 44.2 | 47 | 65.6 | 165 | 56.8 | 87 | 20.9 |
Community | 93 | 27.2 | 103 | 28.3 | 19 | 12.9 | 56 | 18.9 | 79 | 41.1 | 42 | 58.8 | 111 | 38.4 | 85 | 20.4 |
Overseas information sources | 104 | 30.4 | 101 | 27.8 | 24 | 16.4 | 70 | 23.7 | 69 | 35.9 | 42 | 58.6 | 121 | 41.8 | 84 | 20.2 |
Mostly in English | 186 | 54.1 | 204 | 56.2 | 119 | 81.1 | 189 | 64.0 | 74 | 38.2 | 9 | 12.0 | 84 | 29.0 | 306 | 73.5 |
Mostly in another language | 154 | 44.7 | 159 | 43.8 | 26 | 17.8 | 106 | 36.0 | 117 | 60.6 | 63 | 88.0 | 206 | 71.0 | 107 | 25.6 |
Total | 344 | 363 | 147 | 295 | 193 | 72 | 290 | 417 |
Differences by language group are reported in Appendix Table S3.