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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%
2014	0-6	Watch MediaCorp TV	502	1.3
2014	0-6	Watch Pay TV	502	0.9
2014	0-6	Watch other content	502	0.5
2014	0-6	Read news	502	0
2014	0-6	Read magazines	502	0
2014	0-6	Read books	502	0.2
2014	0-6	Do homework	502	0
2014	0-6	Listen to radio	502	0.1
2014	0-6	Listen to music	502	0.2
2014	0-6	Play video games	502	0.2

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Age	age	Text	-	-
Activity	activity	Text	-	-
Sample	sample	Numeric	No. of Respondents	-
Time Spent	hours	Numeric	No. 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 June 30, 2025 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)