Table 2.
Participants’ response frequencies of the seven-level Likert scale question about information sources preference (N = 776) (IQR: Intequartile range).
| LIKERT SCALE | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Median | IQR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Never | Rarely (1 time per 2 months) | Usually not (1 time a month) | Sometimes (1 time per 15 days) | Often (3−4 times a week) | Very often (1−2 times a day) | Many times a day | |||
| Newspapers/ magazines (printed press) | 447 | 152 | 52 | 67 | 38 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| Radio | 289 | 163 | 82 | 105 | 89 | 35 | 13 | 2 | 3 |
| Television | 62 | 44 | 32 | 85 | 194 | 226 | 133 | 5 | 2 |
| Electronic press (e.g. electronic newspapers) | 135 | 44 | 34 | 74 | 145 | 223 | 121 | 5 | 3 |
| News websites (e.g. websites with news content) | 74 | 43 | 39 | 91 | 162 | 233 | 134 | 5 | 2 |
| Valid websites (e.g. Ministry of Health, Civil Protection) | 126 | 78 | 69 | 123 | 151 | 155 | 74 | 4 | 4 |
| Internet (e.g. general blogs, personal pages) | 187 | 81 | 60 | 114 | 126 | 135 | 73 | 4 | 4 |
| Social Networks in general | 186 | 75 | 53 | 92 | 134 | 146 | 90 | 4 | 4 |
| 244 | 71 | 54 | 83 | 102 | 136 | 86 | 4 | 5 | |
| 600 | 51 | 29 | 26 | 29 | 33 | 8 | 1 | 0 | |
| 549 | 54 | 34 | 39 | 38 | 36 | 26 | 1 | 1 | |
| YouTube | 477 | 86 | 45 | 51 | 59 | 42 | 16 | 1 | 2 |
| 681 | 28 | 18 | 26 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 678 | 33 | 18 | 25 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 687 | 28 | 14 | 22 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 |