The statistic illustrates the media usage of women to follow men's and women's football in the Netherlands in 2014 and 2015 (in share of respondents). It can be seen that both men's and women's football is most followed on television with 86 and 67 percent respectively. Second most used media was the website usage with roughly 67 percent to follow women's football and 51.5 percent did that to follow men's football. The least used media were both magazines and teletext. 27 percent of the women used magazines to follow women's football against roughly 33 percent to follow men's football. Teletext was used by a little more than 25 percent for women's against 40 percent for men's football.
When looking at the number of news items on women's football, a development of interest in this topic can be seen. In 2004, the number of news items on women's football by well-known Dutch news channels were between zero and six. In 2014, this increased to a level between 11 and 43 news items.
Media usage of women to follow men's and women's football in the Netherlands in 2014 and 2015
(in share of respondents)
Followers of Twitter accounts of professional football players in the Dutch national women's league
Method of interview
Online survey
Supplementary notes
The source does not clearly specify the age group of respondents. Instead, the source states that 18 of the male respondents and 32 of the female respondents were aged 'younger than 18'.
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