Trends in library usage. From Spain’s ‘Barometer of Reading Habits,’ 2018, Federation of Spanish Publishers’ Guilds. Women Lead Men in Reading Books.

announcing results today (January 22) of its new “Barometer of Reading Habits” study for 2018, the Federación de Gremios de Editores de España (Federation of Spanish Publishers’ Guilds) is cheering one finding that 67.2 percent of Spain’s population report having read books in 2018. That figure, the federation reports, is an increase of 1.4 percent over 2017’s figure.

The survey from which today’s data is derived is a study sponsored by the directorate-general of books and reading in the ministry of culture and sports, and was conducted with a sample of 5,000 respondents by Conecta Research & Consulting.

Particularly encouraging are numbers suggesting that leisure-time readership is growing across all age and educational demographics, although a lack of time is being cited by respondents as the primary reason not to have a “habit of reading.”

By Porter Anderson Publishing Perspectives

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