14 pct of Romanians go to the mall each month, only 1.7 pct go to library

Newsroom 17/03/2015 | 16:39

About 14 percent of Romanians go shopping at the mall monthly, according to the “Cultural Consumption Barometer” published on Monday by the National Institute for Cultural Research and Training (INCFC), while only 1.7 percent of the population go to the library to read.

According to Agerpres, the study also reveals that watching films (88 percent), reading specialist books (23 percent), listening to the radio (76 percent) and reading newspapers (50 percent) are the choices of the respondents when referring to cultural consumption.

Expression of great culture, classical music consumption is very low for the general population of Romania, 80.6 percent of respondents stating they do not attend such events, while 15.2 percent say they seldom attend them, shows the barometer quoted by Mediafax.

In terms of theater, the number of “non-consumers” dropped over the past decade by about 14 percent, being the case of the highest decrease recorded in a form of public cultural consumption for which data were collected.

In 2014, of the population analyzed at national level, 5.7 percent went at least once a month to the cinema. Compared to 2005, the “non-consumers” segment is lesser for men than for women, 58 percent compared to 67.2 percent.

In terms of reading, the trend is not a positive one either. Thus, at the level of the overall population, 79.2 percent of respondents did not go last year to the library to read. Among the people who access the library offers are rather young people aged below 34 and with a higher level of education, at least high school.

Staff