More women read than men

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I thought I noticed this in the shop many years ago but was never sure if weren't just my imagination.

The figures in the new report show considerable variation in reading habits across demographic categories. Higher income and educational levels correspond to higher percentages of literature consumption, for example. Gender made a difference, too: 55.1 percent of women reported in 2002 that they had read literature over the previous year, while only 37.6 percent of men did. …

Literary Reading Is Declining Faster Than Before, Arts Endowment's New Report Says

Richard Evans Lee • July 11, 2004 • Reader, what do you think?
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1 · Posted by: Sam on August 8, 2004 12:30 PM

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Thanks,

Samuel
www.Ds-Books.com


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