During a 2021 survey carried out among women aged between 15 and 24 years in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, and Peru, 54 percent of respondents said they cross-checked information online with other sources to decide if it was truthful. Around 53 percent of the interviewees checked if the online source had provided evidence. The share of female teenagers and young adults who assumed all information they accessed online was truthful stood at two percent.
Leading strategies for assessing the truthfulness of online sources of information among female teenagers and young adults in Latin America as of March 2021
* Number of respondents per country surveyed:
Brazil = 1,000
Colombia = 1,000
Ecuador = 1,000
El Salvador = 1,001
Peru = 1,000
This question was phrased by the source as follows: "How do you decide if the information you access online is truthful?"
The source adds the following information: "Three different methodologies were used to collect the data. [...] Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI), i.e. telephone calls [...] Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI), i.e. face-to-face interviews [...] Computer Assisted Web-Interviewing (CAWI), i.e. online survey."
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Plan International. (September 2, 2021). Leading strategies for assessing the truthfulness of online sources of information among female teenagers and young adults in Latin America as of March 2021 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1267708/assessment-online-sources-women-latin-america/
Plan International. "Leading strategies for assessing the truthfulness of online sources of information among female teenagers and young adults in Latin America as of March 2021." Chart. September 2, 2021. Statista. Accessed December 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1267708/assessment-online-sources-women-latin-america/
Plan International. (2021). Leading strategies for assessing the truthfulness of online sources of information among female teenagers and young adults in Latin America as of March 2021. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1267708/assessment-online-sources-women-latin-america/
Plan International. "Leading Strategies for Assessing The Truthfulness of Online Sources of Information among Female Teenagers and Young Adults in Latin America as of March 2021." Statista, Statista Inc., 2 Sep 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1267708/assessment-online-sources-women-latin-america/
Plan International, Leading strategies for assessing the truthfulness of online sources of information among female teenagers and young adults in Latin America as of March 2021 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1267708/assessment-online-sources-women-latin-america/ (last visited December 22, 2024)
Leading strategies for assessing the truthfulness of online sources of information among female teenagers and young adults in Latin America as of March 2021 [Graph], Plan International, September 2, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1267708/assessment-online-sources-women-latin-america/
