Table 1.
General characteristics of the 23,482 young respondents to the international survey “Social Media & COVID-19” by sex, age group, education level, and household income in the three income groups (according to the World Bank classification of income level).
| HIC N = 9475 |
UMIC N = 8000 |
LMIC N = 6007 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Sex | ||||||
| Females | 4782 | 50.5 | 3994 | 49.9 | 2929 | 48.8 |
| Males | 4693 | 49.5 | 4006 | 50.1 | 3078 | 51.2 |
| Age group | ||||||
| 18–24 (Gen Z) | 3066 | 32.4 | 2635 | 32.9 | 2018 | 33.6 |
| 25–40 (Millennials) | 6409 | 67.6 | 5365 | 67.1 | 3989 | 66.4 |
| Education level | ||||||
| Low | 573 | 6.0 | 419 | 5.2 | 219 | 3.6 |
| Intermediate | 4193 | 44.3 | 2650 | 33.1 | 1974 | 32.9 |
| High | 4709 | 49.7 | 3931 | 49.1 | 2813 | 46.8 |
| Missing * | - | - | 1000 | 12.5 | 1001 | 16.7 |
| Household income ($) | ||||||
| I am a student | 1509 | 15.9 | 1200 | 15.0 | 1230 | 20.5 |
| Under 500 | 379 | 4.0 | 1783 | 22.3 | 2057 | 34.2 |
| 501 to 1000 | 610 | 6.4 | 1949 | 24.4 | 1100 | 18.3 |
| 1001 to 1500 | 1012 | 10.7 | 1078 | 13.5 | 355 | 5.9 |
| 1501 to 2500 | 1683 | 17.8 | 630 | 7.9 | 204 | 3.4 |
| 2501 to 5000 | 2001 | 21.1 | 311 | 3.9 | 108 | 1.8 |
| 5001 to 7500 | 710 | 7.5 | 115 | 1.4 | 74 | 1.2 |
| 7501 to 10,000 | 369 | 3.9 | 87 | 1.1 | 55 | 0.9 |
| 10,001 to 12,500 | 174 | 1.8 | 85 | 1.1 | 53 | 0.9 |
| 12,501 to 15,000 | 105 | 1.1 | 80 | 1.0 | 37 | 0.6 |
| >15,000 | 396 | 4.2 | 145 | 1.8 | 63 | 1.0 |
| I am not employed | 450 | 4.7 | 506 | 6.3 | 624 | 10.4 |
| Other | 77 | 0.8 | 31 | 0.4 | 47 | 0.8 |
HIC: High-income countries; LMIC: Low-middle-income countries; UMIC: Upper-middle-income countries. * No information on education level for Nigeria and South Africa.