Recent data revealed that ** percent of Boomers who responded to a survey held in the United States in March 2020 were more likely to read books as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, compared to ** percent of Gen X respondents.Millennials were the most likely to read more books to keep themselves entertained whilst self-isolating, with ** percent saying that they were more inclined to read books, ***** percent higher than all adults in total.

The statistic shows the average number of books read per year by consumers in the United States as of August 2018, broken down by income. The data shows that Americans earning more than ******* a year were more likely to have read more books than those on lower salaries, with ** percent of respondents in this category saying that they read between ** and ** books per year compared to ** percent of Americans with a salary below *******.

Context

I wanted to have a go at webscraping so made a list of the books everyone must read at least once from Goodreads, over 23,000.

Content

The columns include a unique Book ID, Book Name, Book Author, Book Rating and Number of Ratings.

This dataset is about books. It has 1 row and is filtered where the book is Building a TypePad blog people want to read. It features 7 columns including author, publication date, language, and book publisher.

https://knowledgequest.aasl.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/GoodReads-logo.jpg"> Goodreads The dataset for Goodreads' All-Time Greatest Books was compiled by Goodreads, the world's largest website for readers and book recommendations. Goodreads' mission is to help people find and share books they love, and the dataset was created with this goal in mind. The dataset includes information about the top-rated books on Goodreads, as determined by user ratings and reviews. The dataset is based on data from January 2007 to the present day, reflecting the books that have resonated with readers over more than a decade. The dataset includes books from a wide range of genres, including classic literature, contemporary fiction, non-fiction, and more. Goodreads' All-Time Greatest Books dataset is constantly updated to reflect changes in user ratings and reviews. The dataset is sourced from a diverse global community of readers, representing a wide range of ages, cultures, and backgrounds. The inspiration behind the dataset is to provide a resource for book lovers to discover new authors, genres, and literary classics. The dataset also serves as a valuable tool for researchers and scholars interested in understanding reading habits and trends. Goodreads' All-Time Greatest Books dataset is an ever-growing and evolving collection of some of the world's most beloved literature, offering insights into the tastes and preferences of millions of readers around the world.

• Three free time activities carried out by the interviewee on working days.
• Three free time activities that the interviewee would like to do on working days.
• Three free time activities carried out by the interviewee on weekends and holidays.
• Three free time activities that the interviewee would like to do on weekends and holidays.
• Assessment of the degree of reading in Spain.
• Opinion on what should be the main objective of the reading.
• Frequency of dedication of free time to reading. If you never or almost never read, main reasons for not doing so.
• Main reasons why the interviewee devotes part of his free time to reading.
• Amount of time devoted, in a working day, to reading. Amount dedicated on weekends and holidays.
• Place where the interviewee reads most often.
• Reading in languages other than Spanish. If it occurs, in which or which.
• Support in which most of the materials that the interviewee reads are found.
• Frequency of reading newspapers, magazines and books.

TO THOSE WHO READ NEWSLETTERS WITH ANY FREQUENCY: The kind of newspaper you read. If you read general information newspapers, how often you read the different sections. - Number of newspapers read, on a working day and on weekends and holidays. - Person who usually buys the newspapers that the interviewee reads.

TO THOSE WHO READ REVIEWS WITH ANY FREQUENCY: - Kind of magazines you read. - Person who usually buys the magazines that the interviewee reads.

TO THOSE WHO READ BOOKS WITH ANY FREQUENCY: - Type of books you read most often. - Ownership of the books you read. - Literary genres you read most often. - Criterion that the interviewee takes into account when choosing the book to read. - Proportion of total book reading time spent on textbooks, study books or professional books. - Reading books in a library during the last twelve months. Frequency with which you go to libraries to read there. - Loan of books from a library or a bibliobus. Frequency of this type of loan. If you don't, main reason for it.

TO ALL: - Comparison of the price of books with that of other cultural entertainment goods, such as discs, videos or computer games. Purchase of books. Place where you do it, factors that influence you when buying. - Attendance at Book Fairs. In case of attending, reasons why you have done so. - Number of people living in the interviewee's home. - Domestic equipment at the respondent's home. - Scale of political ideology. - Remembrance of vote in the 2000 general election.

Leisure activities, interest in and occupation with different literature genres, availability of literature products, expectations of books and valuations. Topics: Participation in and significance of scientific surveys; necessity of improved selection of literature and books; necessity of better information about new publications; frequency of leisure activities (scale); interest in different literature products (scale); proportion of time reading as leisure activity; length of reading selected printed materials yesterday (scale); reading along with listening to music; number of books read of different literature genres (scale); frequency of reading various printed materials (scale); reading serialized novels in newspapers and magazines; reading the youth magazine "neues leben"; author and title of last read and preferred belletristic book; frequency of use of literature information in daily newspapers; reasons for reading literature information (scale); interest in different literature genres (scale); valuation of specified books (scale); writing short stories; possession of books of different genres (scale); libraries and book stores at place of residence and frequency of use; checking out books from libraries; selection of the Phonothek and its use; number of books purchased; place to purchase books; agreement of place of work or training with main place of residence; size of place of work or training; size of place of residence; social origins; physical and mental demands from work; judgement on work demands and assessment of diversity of activity; work with computer technology; time duration of work with computer technology; willingness to work on modern technology; work in shift work; interest in key technology; extent to which informed about development status of key technology in work area; use of sources of information on key technology (scale); evaluation of presented books (scale); regularity of reading selected magazines (scale); evaluation of knowledge on work with and on computers and usability of the knowledge; expectations of a book on key technology (scale); frequency of reading scientific magazines (scale); interest in popular scientific literature on different topics (scale); interest in adventure topics in different media forms (scale); proportion of adventure literature in entire reading time; favorite author of adventure literature; reasons for interest in adventure literature and preferred topics (scale); reading habits; reasons for reading adventure paper-back books (scale); frequency of reading paper-back books of different series (scale); collecting paper-back books of different topic areas (scale); desired characteristics of heros of adventure literature (scale); valuation of presented adventure books (scale); number of adventure films seen. Supplemental form: last book read; valuation on the book; possession of the book; reasons for reading this book (scale); influence of book on further reading habits (scale). Freizeittätigkeiten, Interesse für und Beschäftigung mit unterschiedlichen Literaturgenres, Verfügbarkeit von Literaturerzeugnissen, Erwartungen an Bücher und Wertungen. Themen: Teilnahme an und Bedeutung von wissenschaftlichen Umfragen; Notwendigkeit eines verbesserten Literatur- und Buchangebotes; Notwendigkeit einer besseren Information über Neuerscheinungen; Häufigkeit von Freizeittätigkeiten (Skala); Interesse für unterschiedliche Literaturerzeugnisse (Skala); zeitlicher Anteil des Lesens an Freizeittätigkeiten; Dauer des Lesens ausgewählter Druckerzeugnisse am Vortag (Skala); Lesen neben dem Hören von Musik; Anzahl gelesener Bücher unterschiedlicher Literaturgenres (Skala); Häufigkeit des Lesens verschiedener Druckerzeugnisse (Skala); Lesen von Fortsetzungsromanen in Zeitungen und Zeitschriften; Lesen des Jugendmagazins "neues leben"; Verfasser und Titel des zuletzt gelesenen und präferierten schöngeistigen Buches; Häufigkeit der Nutzung von Literaturinformationen in Tageszeitungen; Gründe für das Lesen von Literaturinformationen (Skala); Interesse für unterschiedliche Literaturgenres (Skala); Wertung vorgegebener Bücher (Skala); Schreiben von Kurzgeschichten; Besitz an Büchern unterschiedlicher Genres (Skala); Bibliotheken und Buchhandlungen am Wohnort und Häufigkeit der Nutzung; Ausleihe von Büchern aus Bibliotheken; Angebot der Phonothek und seine Nutzung; Anzahl der gekauften Bücher; Ort für Bücherkauf; Übereinstimmung des Arbeits- oder Ausbildungsortes mit Hauptwohnsitz; Größe des Arbeits- oder Ausbildungsortes; Größe des Wohnortes; soziale Herkunft; körperliche und geistige Beanspruchung durch die Arbeit; Beurteilung der Arbeitsanforderungen und Einschätzung der Vielfältigkeit der Tätigkeit; Arbeit mit Computertechnik; Zeitdauer der Arbeit mit Computertechnik; Bereitschaft zur Arbeit an moderner Technik; Arbeit im Schichtsystem; Interesse für Schlüsseltechnologie; Informiertheit über Entwicklungsstand der Schlüsseltechnologie auf Arbeitsgebiet; Nutzung der Informationsquellen zur Schlüsseltechnologie (Skala); Bewertung vorgegebener Bücher (Skala); Regelmäßigkeit des Lesens ausgewählter Zeitschriften (Skala); Bewertung der Kenntnisse zur Arbeit mit und an Computern und Verwertbarkeit der Kenntnisse; Erwartungen an ein Buch zur Schlüsseltechnologie (Skala); Häufigkeit des Lesens wissenschaftlicher Zeitschriften (Skala); Interesse für populärwissenschaftliche Literatur zu unterschiedlichen Themen (Skala); Interesse für Abenteuerthemen in unterschiedlichen Medienformen (Skala); Anteil der Abenteuerliteratur an der gesamten Lesezeit; Lieblingsautor von Abenteuerliteratur; Gründe für Interesse an Abenteuerliteratur und bevorzugte Themen (Skala); Lesegewohnheiten; Gründe für das Lesen von Abenteuer-Taschenbüchern (Skala); Häufigkeit des Lesens von Taschenbüchern unterschiedlicher Reihen (Skala); Sammeln von Taschenbüchern unterschiedlicher Themengebiete (Skala); gewünschte Eigenschaften von Helden von Abenteuerliteratur (Skala); Wertung vorgegebener Abenteuerbücher (Skala); Anzahl der gesehenen Abenteuerfilme; Zusatzbogen: zuletzt gelesenes Buch; Wertung zum Buch; Besitz des Buches; Gründe für das Lesen dieses Buches (Skala); Einfluß des Buches auf weitere Lesegewohnheiten (Skala).

In 2021, survey data on book readers in the United States revealed that ** percent of female respondents stated they had read or listened to at least one book in the previous 12 months. The share of men who had read a book in that time frame was slightly lower at ** percent, but marked an increase from the ** percent recorded two years earlier. Book readers in the U.S. Whilst digital formats have overtaken print in terms of popularity and consumption, many U.S. media consumers still enjoy a good book – though women tend to read more books than men. A 2018 survey showed that 11 percent of U.S. women read ** or more books that year, compared to **** percent of male respondents. Women were also more likely to prefer reading books in paperback format, and much less likely to be fans of comic books. Regardless of adults’ preferences, something which many U.S. readers agree on is the importance of reading to children. According to a report on family reading habits, 58 percent of parents with a child aged between three and five years old said that they read aloud to their child **** to ***** times per week. The frequency of read-aloud time diminished as children grew older, usually because the child could then read independently, though some children eventually swap reading for other activities such as playing video games, watching television, or using social media.

According to a survey held in the United States between March and April 2020, 70 percent of respondents said that they read print books the most, with 39 percent of those consumers preferring their books to be new.

The study was conducted as the U.S. went into lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, however although the virus certainly affected media consumption in the United States, what did not change was consumers' book preferences. Print has always been the most popular book format in the U.S. and figures on increased media consumption during the pandemic showed that even Gen Z, a generation famed for loving digital, were the most likely to be reading books more than usual during the outbreak.

Book consumption in the U.S.

Whilst printed newspapers and magazines have struggled to survive as digital formats grow ever more prevalent and appealing, when it comes to books U.S. consumers still have a clear preference for print. Annual survey data consistently shows that U.S. adults are far more likely to have read a print book in the last year than a digital version thereof, and whilst the popularity of digital books has increased, print remains the favorite.

As far as book buying goes, whilst the number of print books sold in the U.S. fluctuates each year, the figures remain relatively stable. Although unit sales have not surpassed 700 million since 2010, the number came close in 2018 and yearly sales from 2015 to 2019 were higher than the amount recorded in 2004.

In Brazil, each region has its own cultural identity regarding accent, gastronomy, traditions, all of which may reflect its literature. Specially, we believe that country's background and contextual features are directly related to what people read. Hence, we present an enhanced dataset that comprises cultural, geographic, and socioeconomic information to explore Brazilian cultural identity through reading preference.

As our main data source, we chose the Goodreads website due to the sheer volume of data available and its organized and easily accessible API. We collect data from Brazilian readers through the goodreads library, which provides a Python interface to the Goodreads API. Specifically, we collect members of two of the largest Brazilian reading groups: the "Clube de Leitores em Português" (4,229 members) and the "Goodreads Brasil" (3,222 members). For all members of both groups, we also collect data from their friends. Then, we filter only those containing Brazil as location information from the final users' set. Finally, with the same library, we gather users' bookshelves to assess their reading preferences.

To investigate the Brazilian reading identity, we consider a medley of demographic and socioeconomic data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE): including territorial area, population estimate, demographic density, Human Development Index (HDI), Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and monthly household income per capita. All indicators refer to the year 2020, except the HDI that refers to the year 2017. The data collection was carried out from February 23 to March 04, 2021.

Our final dataset, named as BraCID, comprises:

• 38,231 Brazilian Goodreads users
• 75,093 Distinct books
• 80 Literary genres
• 6 IBGE indicators regarding the 27 federative units of Brazil

Do pupils of the primary schools enjoy reading. pupils questionnaire ( P1133a ) : group, age, language used at home / statements about reading and books: enjoy reading, reading is boring ( after one hour ) , useless to read books, reading at school, educational value of books / aim of reading: to be at yourself, to get known something, to relax, nothing else to do / number of books and comic books / sources for books / heard of whom or where which book is nice to read / talk about read books with other people / read from a book chosen by respondent for someone / what and how often does respondent read for pleasure / time spend on reading at school and at home yesterday / facilities at school for reading for pleasure / which types of books does respondent like / if respondent likes a book: read read one more time, tell about it at school, make notes for him-her self or for other people, read from that book / preferred spending of leisure time / nicest book to read / like to read for pleasure. teachers questionnaire ( P1133b ) : school belongs to municipality of Amsterdam / number of years experience with group 7 or 8 and actual group / number of pupils in group / number of juvenile books and types of juvenile have been studied by respondent / sources to get actual information about juvenile books / documentation centre or library present at school / categorization of juvenile books at school / money spend for new books in school library / use of changing collections of the "Onderwijsmediatheekdienst" / aims for working with juvenile books / use of study method for reading juvenile books / time spend in school scheme for reading / activities to stimulate children to read / attention given to a book read by a pupil / use of juvenile books in several fields of education / structuring situation at school for working with juvenile books / assistance of institutions to stimulate children to read / activities for special for special week of juvenile books, the "Kinderboekenweek" / problems in working with juvenile literature. Background variables: basic characteristics/ readership, mass media, and 'cultural' exposure

The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) collects timely and comparable multidimensional microdata on income, poverty, social exclusion and living conditions.

The EU-SILC collection is a key instrument for providing information required by the European Semester (_[1]) and the European Pillar of Social Rights, and the main source of data for microsimulation purposes and flash estimates of income distribution and poverty rates.

AROPE remains crucial to monitor European social policies, especially to monitor the EU 2030 target on poverty and social exclusion. For more information, please consult EU social indicators.

The EU-SILC instrument provides two types of data:

• Cross-sectional data pertaining to a given time or a certain time period with variables on income, poverty, social exclusion and other living conditions.
• Longitudinal data pertaining to individual-level changes over time, observed periodically over four‐or more year rotation scheme (Annex III (2) of 2019/1700).

EU-SILC collects:

• annual variables,
• three-yearly modules,
• six-yearly modules,
• ad-hoc new policy needs modules,
• optional variables.

The variables collected are grouped by topic and detailed topic and transmitted to Eurostat in four main files (D-File, H-File, R-File and P-file).

The domain ‘Income and Living Conditions’ covers the following topics: persons at risk of poverty or social exclusion, income inequality, income distribution and monetary poverty, living conditions, material deprivation, and EU-SILC ad-hoc modules, which are structured into collections of indicators on specific topics.

In 2023, in addition to annual data, in EU-SILC were collected: the three yearly module on labour market and housing, the six yearly module on intergenerational transmission of advantages and disadvantages, housing difficulties, and the ad hoc subject on households energy efficiency.

Starting from 2021 onwards, the EU quality reports use the structure of the Single Integrated Metadata Structure (SIMS).

_{([1]) The European Semester is the European Union’s framework for the coordination and surveillance of economic and social policies.}

Here are a few use cases for this project:

1. Educational Tools: The RMAI model can be used to develop applications or tools to teach children or adults about letters and numbers. By scanning real-life objects or text, it can identify the mentioned classes and further enhance the learning experience.

2. Identification of License Plate Numbers: The model can be employed in surveillance software to identify vehicle license plates. Despite the model not being explicitly trained for this purpose, the ability to recognize the mentioned numeral and letter classes may be sufficient for basic applications.

3. Robot Navigation: The reference image suggests potential for robot navigation use. Robots could use this model to read numbers and letters in their environment, which could be used in synchronizing tasks or following specified routes in a warehouse or factory setting.

4. Accessibility Tools: The model can be used to develop applications for visually impaired people to read and comprehend written material. This can range from reading books, recognizing signs, or identifying different objects that have numbers or letters on them.

5. Data Sorting: In an office or warehouse setting, this model could be used to sort packages, files or items based on numbers and letters. This will help in increasing efficiency and reducing potential errors in the process.

In 2024, ** percent of French people had read 20 books or more on print format, while ** percent read non. As a matter of comparison, only *** percent of consumers read 20 or more digital books that same year.

List price: $26.99

Audiobook performed by Tom Hanks.

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

New York Times Bestseller | A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick | A New York Times Book Review Notable Book | TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019 |

Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, The Washington Post;O: The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Vogue, Refinery29, and Buzzfeed

Ann Patchett, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth, delivers her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go. The Dutch House is the story of a paradise lost, a tour de force that digs deeply into questions of inheritance, love and forgiveness, of how we want to see ourselves and of who we really are.

At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves.

The story is told by Cyril’s son Danny, as he and his older sister, the brilliantly acerbic and self-assured Maeve, are exiled from the house where they grew up by their stepmother. The two wealthy siblings are thrown back into the poverty their parents had escaped from and find that all they have to count on is one another. It is this unshakeable bond between them that both saves their lives and thwarts their futures.

Set over the course of five decades, The Dutch House is a dark fairy tale about two smart people who cannot overcome their past. Despite every outward sign of success, Danny and Maeve are only truly comfortable when they’re together. Throughout their lives they return to the well-worn story of what they’ve lost with humor and rage. But when at last they’re forced to confront the people who left them behind, the relationship between an indulged brother and his ever-protective sister is finally tested.

ISBN: 9780062963703 Published: September 24, 2019 By: Ann Patchett Read by: Tom Hanks

©2019 Patchett (P)2019 HarperAudio

The data collection comprises three elements that link properties of the words that occur in books suitable for children and young people to the morpheme knowledge that readers display in reading tasks. These three elements include the following:

(a) A lexical database of the words that occur in 1200 books suitable for children and young people aged 7-16. This database comprises over 100,000 words and a range of psycholinguistic properties such as word frequency and contextual diversity. The corpus from which these words were sourced contains over 70 million words.

(b) A computational algorithm that parses these words into morphemes and provides data about their frequency of occurrence. Notably, the parser works on morphemes defined orthographically (as opposed to etymologically) and so captures what a child might learn about morphology through reading experience.

(c) Response time and accuracy data from a large-scale study of human readers that links the corpus-based metrics pertaining to morphemes to reading performance.

Each of these datasets, along with relevant pre-processing and analysis code, is available on the Open Science Framework (OSF). Each of these OSF projects also contains comprehensive documentation to facilitate reuse. Links are available as related resources.

Leisure contents, expectations of current literature, attitude to reading and reading habits, preferred literature, valuations on the publisher "Neues Leben" and the magazine "Temperamente". Topics: Extent of leisure time; leisure activities such as sport, further education, discotheques, movies, circle of friends, political information, television, theater, literature; proportion of reading in leisure time; preferred literature genres of partner; recommendations for reading from other persons and media; desire for more time for reading; time available for reading yesterday; reading belletristic literature with concurrent use of secondary media such as radio, television or recorder, tape, record; number of books of different literature genres read in the last quarter; current stress from reading technical literature in leisure time; frequency of reading literature series in the last quarter (scale); reading a serialized novel in picture magazines or daily newspapers; continuity of reading journals and magazines; number of issues of "Temperamente" read; following literature criticism in various media (scale); interest in books from various literature areas (scale); reading of works of different literary epochs (scale); valuation of individual book titles (scale); number of books in one's family; personal possession of books of different literature genres (scale); regularity of checking books out of public libraries; frequency of trips to book stores and number of books purchased in the last month; preferred place to purchase books; expectations of book illustrations (scale); point in time, duration of reading and evaluation of last book read; source of this book; motives for reading this book; classification of book in literature genre and evaluation; knowledge about the publisher "Neues Leben"; knowledge about the book series of the publisher (scale); knowledge about the books of various authors of the publisher (scale); evaluation of various book titles of the publisher (scale); interest in less well-known authors; expectations of current literature (scale); evaluation of presentation of current problems in various art forms (scale); personal literary activity; library in place of residence; membership in social organizations; occupation of respondent and partner; occupation of father or mother; shift work; evaluation of conditions at work or in training (scale); supplemental form "Temperamente": reasons for reading this magazine (scale); evaluation of individual articles of "Temperamente" (scale); changed frequency of reading the magazine depending on content changes (scale); evaluation of graphic structuring of the magazine (scale); preferred place to purchase the magazine; desired cycle of appearance of the magazine; valuation of individual articles. Freizeitinhalte, Erwartungen an Gegenwartsliteratur, Einstellung zum Lesen und Leseverhalten, bevorzugte Literatur, Wertungen zum Verlag "Neues Leben" und zur Zeitschrift "Temperamente". Themen: Freizeitumfang; Freizeittätigkeiten wie Sport, Weiterbildung, Diskotheken, Kino, Freundeskreis, politische Information, Fernsehen, Theater, Literatur; Anteil des Lesens an der Freizeit; präferierte Literaturgattungen des Partners; Anregungen zum Lesen durch andere Personen und Medien; Wunsch nach mehr Zeit zum Lesen; verfügbare Zeit zum Lesen am Vortag; Lesen schöngeistiger Literatur bei gleichzeitigem Konsum von Sekundärmedien wie Radio, Fernseher bzw. Recorder, Band, Platte; Anzahl gelesener Bücher unterschiedlicher Literaturgattungen im letzten Quartal; gegenwärtige Belastung durch Lesen von Fachliteratur in Freizeit; Häufigkeit des Lesens von Literaturreihen im letzten Quartal (Skala); Lesen eines Fortsetzungsromans in Illustrierten oder Tageszeitungen; Kontinuität des Lesens von Zeitschriften und Magazinen; Anzahl der gelesenen Hefte von "Temperamente"; Verfolgen von Literaturkritik in verschiedenen Medien (Skala); Interesse für Bücher aus verschiedenen Literaturbereichen (Skala); Lesen von Werken unterschiedlicher literarischer Epochen (Skala); Wertung einzelner Buchtitel (Skala); Anzahl der Bücher in der Familie; persönlicher Besitz an Büchern unterschiedlicher Literaturgattung (Skala); Regelmäßigkeit der Buchausleihe aus öffentlichen Bibliotheken; Häufigkeit des Besuchs von Buchhandlungen und Anzahl der gekauften Bücher im letzten Monat; präferierter Ort für Buchkauf; Erwartungen an Buchillustrationen (Skala); Zeitpunkt, Lesedauer und Bewertung des zuletzt gelesenen Buches; Bezugsquelle dieses Buches; Motive für Lesen dieses Buches; Einordnung des Buches in Literaturgattung und Bewertung; Kenntnis des Verlages "Neues Leben"; Kenntnis der Buchreihen des Verlages (Skala); Kenntnis der Bücher verschiedener Autoren des Verlages (Skala); Bewertung verschiedener Buchtitel des Verlages (Skala); Interesse für wenig kekannte Autoren; Erwartungen an Gegenwartsliteratur (Skala); Bewertung der Darstellung der Gegenwartsprobleme in verschiedenen Kunstformen (Skala); eigene literarische Tätigkeit; Bibliothek im Wohnort; Mitgliedschaft in gesellschaftlichen Organisationen; Tätigkeit des Befragten und des Partners; Tätigkeit des Vaters bzw. der Mutter; Schichtsystem; Bewertung der Bedingungen in der Arbeit bzw. der Ausbildung (Skala); Zusatzbogen "Temperamente": Gründe für das Lesen dieser Zeitschrift (Skala); Bewertung einzelner Beiträge von "Temperamente" (Skala); veränderte Lesehäufigkeit der Zeitschrift in Abhängigkeit inhaltlicher Veränderungen (Skala); Bewertung der graphischen Gestaltung der Zeitschrift (Skala); präferierter Ort für Kauf der Zeitschrift; gewünschter Erscheinungszyklus der Zeitschrift; Wertung einzelner Beiträge.

What respondent experiences as most important in life / how many times respondent is watching tv, to which stations / motivations of respondent to watch and listen to tv and radio / watching alone or with other people / which kind of programs is respondent watching / if respondent using a video recorder / if respondent is member of a broadcasting corporation / how many radio's are used in house / how often respondent is listening to the radio, to which channels / r.'s attitude towards politics / if respondent is reading papers, and which papers about which subjects / how much time it takes to read a paper (for respondent) / which kind of books respondent reads / which kind of languages respondent speaks / which kind of subjects respondents interest, and how much / r.'s opinion about local news and local media / r.'s opinion about his-her financial situation, now and in future / r.'s opinion about living in this municipality / r.'s activities in free time / r.'s contacts with local people, family, neighbours and colleagues / r's makes time-table in quarters of an hour of exact activities.Background variables: basic characteristics/ residence/ housing situation/ household characteristics/ characteristics of parental family/household/ place of work/ occupation/employment/ income/capital assets/ education/ politics/ religion/ consumption of durables/ readership, mass media, and 'cultural' exposure/ organizational membership

The aim of this research was to explore whether the advantages of shared book reading (the joint attention and high quality adult language input) remain true where children have language difficulties. We compared parents' input to their young children with language difficulties during shared reading and play activities. Sharing books with young children is potentially an excellent opportunity for language development. The children and adults are jointly focused on the same words and pictures, and the text in children’s books tends to have a more varied vocabulary and more accurate and complex grammar than child-directed speech during play. However, in shared reading interventions, the best results have been shown for children who are already progressing well with spoken communication. Children who are at risk for language development (for example because of a slow start to talking, a family history of problems, or socio-economic disadvantage) have benefited less.