This statistic displays the use of social media to access local content in Australia in 2016, by region. During the survey period, around 31 percent of respondents from New South Wales used social media to access information about local community events in Australia, compared to 37 percent of respondents from the Australian Capital Territory.
Use of social media to access local content in Australia in 2016, by region
Regional Australians who did not have access to metropoitan television
Method of interview
Computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI)
Supplementary notes
The question was phrased by the source as follows: "for each of the following types of local content, please tell me what you use to get this kind of information. Would it be TV, radio, a local newspaper, the internet or something else?"
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Australian Communications and Media Authority. (May 15, 2017). Use of social media to access local content in Australia in 2016, by region [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 26, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/715346/australia-social-media-use-to-access-local-content-by-region/
Australian Communications and Media Authority. "Use of social media to access local content in Australia in 2016, by region." Chart. May 15, 2017. Statista. Accessed December 26, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/715346/australia-social-media-use-to-access-local-content-by-region/
Australian Communications and Media Authority. (2017). Use of social media to access local content in Australia in 2016, by region. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 26, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/715346/australia-social-media-use-to-access-local-content-by-region/
Australian Communications and Media Authority. "Use of Social Media to Access Local Content in Australia in 2016, by Region." Statista, Statista Inc., 15 May 2017, https://www.statista.com/statistics/715346/australia-social-media-use-to-access-local-content-by-region/
Australian Communications and Media Authority, Use of social media to access local content in Australia in 2016, by region Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/715346/australia-social-media-use-to-access-local-content-by-region/ (last visited December 26, 2024)
Use of social media to access local content in Australia in 2016, by region [Graph], Australian Communications and Media Authority, May 15, 2017. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/715346/australia-social-media-use-to-access-local-content-by-region/
