Summary information

Study title

Flash Eurobarometer 437 (Internet Users’ Preferences for Accessing Content Online)

Creator

European Commission, Brussels DG Communication COMM A1 ´Strategy, Corporate Communication Actions and Eurobarometer´ Unit

Study number / PID

ZA6775, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.12667 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Preferences for accessing online content.
Topics: frequency of internet use; approval of the following statements: own internet connection never cuts out, speed of own internet connection and downloading speed remain constant; frequency of expressing own opinion in the internet or in online social networks; most often used devices to access the internet; frequency of using the internet to access the following types of content: music, films or TV series, images, news; use of free and / or of paid services; types of service used to access music: sharing websites, professional streaming services, digital stores, online social media, online radio stations, internet radio services; name of most often used service; types of service used to access films or series: sharing websites, professional streaming services, broadcasters’ online TV services, digital stores, online platforms, online social media; name of most often used service; most often used way to access images: search engines, image sharing websites, professional photo websites or image banks, online social media; use of retrieved images in search engines: view and use only on search engine results page, access websites where images are located; name of most often used service; types of service used to access news: news aggregation services, online social media, website or app of newspapers and magazines, search engines; reading of whole articles; name of most often used service; most important service criteria with regard to the above-mentioned types of content. Demography: nationality; self-reported belonging to the working class, the middle class or the upper class of society; sex; age; occupation; professional position; type of community; age at end of education; own a mobile phone and fixed (landline) phone; household composition and household size; region. Additionally coded was: respondent ID; country; nation group; weighting factor.

Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

10/03/2016 - 21/03/2016

Country

Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Finland, Sweden, Croatia, United Kingdom

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Probability: Multistage

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Online survey with standardized questionnaire

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

2016

Terms of data access

0 - Data and documents are released for everybody.

Related publications

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