“Statistical modeling shows that the biggest factors at play when it comes to different reading habits are people’s ages, their level of education, and their household income,” Pew wrote in a post about the survey. “The type of community in which people live is not an independent predictor of their reading behavior or their activities at libraries.
Although reading books is a common past time, technology is helping to change how people read books.
According to a survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, reading is experienced differently depending on whether people are located in urban, suburban or rural communities.
Pew said that 78 percent of Americans age 16 and older said they read a book in the past 12 months. According to the survey, 80 percent of urban and 80 percent of suburban residents are particularly likely to have read at least one book in the past year.
Rural residents, Pew said, are less likely to have read a book in the past year, with 71 percent of the survey participants living in this area admitting to reading a book.
Among the urban community, 22 percent of the population read an e-book in the past 12 months, compared to just 17 percent of the rural community."
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I think this study correctly reflects reality. We've moved to a southern rural area, and the people here think we're terribly strange with all these books and lack of a 60" TV.
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