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Cultural practices. By age groups and sex Catalonia. 2006
By age groups By sex
15-29 30-44 45-64 65 + Men Women Total
Reading and writing
Read books 85.1 85.1 85.1 85.1 72.7 75.3 74.0
Read newspapers 90.1 92.9 91.4 81.9 94.1 85.5 89.7
Read magazines 82.8 78.7 71.0 61.2 72.8 75.6 74.2
Write 32.2 18.6 16.3 11.1 19.1 20.4 19.8
Music
Listen to music 99.6 98.7 95.7 87.2 97.0 94.8 95.9
Go to concerts 68.1 48.2 42.7 31.4 49.9 46.5 48.2
Stage arts
Go to cinema 91.1 80.0 62.1 31.8 71.7 65.3 68.5
Go to theatre 46.3 44.4 39.7 27.5 39.5 41.2 40.3
Audiovisuals
Watch television 97.6 96.8 98.2 98.2 97.6 97.7 97.7
Listen to the radio 71.8 81.8 79.3 69.2 79.3 73.5 76.3
Watch video/DVD 95.0 92.4 79.7 49.9 85.9 76.9 81.3
Information technologies
Use a computer 82.8 77.6 48.9 12.8 65.3 52.0 58.5
Use Internet 94.6 82.6 49.8 11.0 69.4 56.2 62.7
Use games console 59.2 23.7 5.6 1.8 30.8 15.3 23.0
Other cultural practices
Go to libraries 67.1 49.5 32.9 22.9 44.3 43.7 44.0
Go to archives 15.2 8.9 9.0 4.1 10.8 8.3 9.5
Visit museums 55.8 52.4 47.8 34.2 49.4 47.5 48.4
Visit exhibitions 40.1 37.8 39.1 32.5 36.8 38.5 37.7
Visit monuments 50.9 56.1 46.3 30.0 50.1 44.3 47.2
Association membership 32.4 35.7 39.0 40.7 37.4 36.2 36.8
Units: Per cent.
Source: Departament de Cultura i Mitjans de Comunicació and Idescat.

Last update: November 2, 2009.

ECPC

These statistics have a specific section with all the information available: Survey on Consumption and Cultural Practices (ECPC).

Methodological note

Methodological aspects

The results are presented for the second edition of the Survey on cultural consumption and practices of Catalonia, which sought to find out about the cultural consumption and practices of the Catalan population in its spare time. The time period for the survey, conducted by the Generalitat de Catalunya's Ministry of Culture in collaboration with Idescat, was the last twelve months counted from the date of the interview (November 19 to December 28, 2006).

Unavailable information is represented using the symbol ":". When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".