Daily Entertainment and Cultural Activities

Did yesterday	Jan. 1994 (percent)	April 1998 (percent)	April 2000 (percent)	April 2002 (percent)	April 2004 (percent)
Watched TV news	72%	59%	56%	55%	60%
Read newspaper	49	48	47	41	42
Listened to radio news	47	49	43	41	40
Any news¹	90	85	83	80	82
Went online from home	—	17	23⁵	34	38
Went online from work²	—	12	13⁵	20	20
Total online²	4³	25	30⁵	43	47
Online news	—	—	—	—	24
Watched non-news TV	69	64⁴	57	59	63
Read a magazine	33	29	26	23	25
Read a book	31	35⁴	35⁶	34	35
Watched movie at home	—	—	—	23	24
Made personal phone call	63	67	—	63	66
Emailed friend/relative	—	—	—	27	28
Ate family meal together	64	67	—	63	65
Prayed	56	—	—	66	66
Exercised/ran/sports	26	36	—	39	38
Shopped	23	30	—	27	28

1. For trending purposes, this measure includes only TV, newspaper, and radio news.

2. Based on weekdays.

3. From June 1995.

4. From November 1997.

5. From Pew Internet & American Life Project, April 2000.

6. From September 1999.

Source: Pew Research Center for the People & the Press.

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