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Daily time spent on media activities

Data from Jan 2014 to Dec 2015

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:38 SGT

IMDA (Info-communications Media Development Authority)

Chart (2014)

Data explorer

Dailytimespentonmediaactivities.csv (72 rows, 2.6 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Age
Text
Activity
Text
Sample
Numeric
Time Spent
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
20140-6Watch MediaCorp TV5021.3
20140-6Watch Pay TV5020.9
20140-6Watch other content5020.5
20140-6Read news5020
20140-6Read magazines5020
20140-6Read books5020.2
20140-6Do homework5020
20140-6Listen to radio5020.1
20140-6Listen to music5020.2
20140-6Play video games5020.2

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
AgeageText--
ActivityactivityText--
SamplesampleNumericNo. of Respondents-
Time SpenthoursNumericNo. of Hours-
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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_5ead501e7ac28f12c1655499bfd4b223"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Info-communications Media Development Authority. (2016). Daily time spent on media activities (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved March 19, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_5ead501e7ac28f12c1655499bfd4b223/view

About this dataset

Contact

info@imda.gov.sg

Created on

29 Sep 2016

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

IMDA (Info-communications Media Development Authority)