Percentage of Time Spent Reading While Using Other Media
Updated August 5, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff

7th to 12th-Graders in 2003-2004
Reading while | Percentage of reading time |
---|---|
Watching TV | 11% |
Listening to music | 10 |
Doing homework on the computer | 3 |
Playing videogames | 3 |
Playing computer games | 2 |
Using the computer (other) | 2 |
Instant messaging | 2 |
E-mailing | 1 |
Surfing websites | 1 |
Using any of the above media | 35% |
Source: National Endowment for the Arts, To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence, November 2007.
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