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This report presents the results of the South African National Reading Survey, conducted in 2023. The National Reading Survey is a nationally representative survey of the adult population aged 16+ which describes the reading practices, preferences and contexts of adults, both in terms of reading for themselves and reading with children in their household. In addition to covering information about frequency, depth and types of reading, access to and preferences regarding reading materials, and attitudes/motivations related to reading, the survey has focus areas relating to library use, digital reading, reading with children and reading language preferences.
 

The animated video summarises the results of the South African National Reading Survey 2023

This presentation was shared at the National Reading Barometer project launch event on 13 June 2023

This report describes the methodology of the 2023 South African National Reading Survey, a nationally representative survey of the adult population aged 16+ which describes the reading practices, preferences and contexts of adults, both in terms of reading for themselves and reading with children in their household. The technical report provides information about the data collection process, the structure of the open source questionnaire and dataset, and the key data cleaning and data analysis processes followed to arrive at the results reported in the survey findings reports.

The raw data and questionnaire from the National Reading Survey 2023 are available for download from DataFirst. 

Access the data here - https://www.datafirst.uct.ac.za/dataportal/index.php/catalog/937