Do you culture?

A recent survey shows the Maltese are going to the theatre, concerts and shows far more than they were 10 years ago. Sadly, we’re still not reading. Veronica Stivala sifts through the numbers in the recently published Culture Participation Survey 2011

Part of the report refers to the reading habits and says that "the proportion of male students who said they had read one whole book emerged as 38.2 per cent (meaning 61.8 had not even read one book) in a year. The girls did a bit better with around double the percentage (61.8) emerging as having read one book.

Ironically – because you’d think students had more time to read – things got a bit better with employed people, and the men beat the women this time: 56.5 per cent of men read at least one book in a year whereas the figure for women was 43.5 per cent.The favourite was the romantic story, popular with nearly one third of respondents, predominantly women."

Source: Times of Malta, 5 February 2012.

Link: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120205/arts-entertainment/Do-you-culture-.405579