Media barometer 1999

The first Media Barometer was conducted in 1979 and since then the survey has been carried out annually. The purpose is to explore how the Swedish population is using different media during an average day. In 1999 the respondents were asked about their usage of different media equipment such as television, text-television, radio, video recorder, CD-player/record player, and tape recorder, the day before the interview. Respondents using any of these equipments were asked about time spent using the equipment. For equipment not used the day before the respondents were asked when it was last used. Television watchers were asked about which channels they had watched. Video watchers were asked if they watched a recorded program, a rented movie or a movie they had bought. All respondents were asked if they had been reading any of the following the day before: morning paper, evening paper, weekly magazine, comics or any other magazine, or book. If so, they were asked how many and for how long period. Readers of morning and evening papers were asked if they read the printed version or the internet version. Book readers were also asked what kind of literature they were reading, and paper and magazine readers were asked about what kind of paper/magazine they read. Those respondents who answered that they did not read any paper, magazine or book the day before were asked when they last did so. The survey also includes detailed information on at what time the day before the respondent spent time reading morning paper, evening paper, listening to the radio or watching television. There is also more detailed information on which news magazines the respondent watched. The respondents also had to state what kind of advertisments they had been reading/looking to during the last week. A number of questions dealt with computer usage at home and at work respectively, and the usage of Internet at home and at work. Background variables includes information on age, gender, education, occupation, and household composition. Questions about which radio channels the respondent listened to are not asked in the main survey. These questions are put in a separate survey. Purpose: Describe the trends and changes in people's use of mass media.