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Weekly Time Spent on Media Activities

IMDA (Info-communications Media Development Authority)

Respondents were asked for their weekly time spent on various media activities via a face-to-face interview.

Data from Jan 2011 to Dec 2015

Last updated 6 Jun 2024

Chart (2014)

Data explorer

WeeklyTimeSpentonMediaActivities.csv (300 rows, 11.1 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Age
Text
Media Activity
Text
Sample
Numeric
Mean Hours
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
201115-19Watch MediaCorp TV9313.9
201115-19Watch Singtel TV933.4
201115-19Watch StarHub TV934.8
201115-19Access news932.3
201115-19Read magazines930.9
201115-19Listen to the radio933.1
201115-19Watch movies932.1
201115-19Play video games931.3
201115-19Access media-related websites9312.1
201120-29Watch MediaCorp TV19611.7
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_73b33e1ddffcfad04b8ca4d3ded59440"
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). Weekly Time Spent on Media Activities (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_73b33e1ddffcfad04b8ca4d3ded59440/view

About this dataset

Contact

info@imda.gov.sg

Created on

28 Jun 2016

Licence

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

Agency

IMDA (Info-communications Media Development Authority)