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FERNANDEZ-RUIZ, Jorge. Book reading and socioeconomic and demographic characteristics: Mexico at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Pap. poblac [online]. 2009, vol.15, n.60, pp.245-273. ISSN 2448-7147.

The existence of low reading rates in Mexico as well as the importance of reading in the development of both individuals and countries has been recognized in multiple academic, cultural and political forums. This paper tries to add to our understanding of reading habits in Mexico by performing an analysis of the relationship between book reading and several socioeconomic and demographic characteristics based on the Encuesta Nacional de Lectura 2006. The multivariate exercises results confirm the influence of age, schooling, socioeconomic level and education of the mother as important explanatory variables of the probability that an individual reads books. We found, in particular, that the probability that an individual of very low socioeconomic level reads books increases with maternal education.

Palavras-chave : reading; book reading; reading habits; socioeconomic characteristics; demographic characteristics; Mexico.

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