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Originally Posted by CommonReader
All the same, the figures don't add up. It is quite irrelevant if there are 1 million, 100 million or a billion people living in a country if you are looking at the average time spent by people on reading. What's not irrelevant is 40% of the population being illiterate. This means that the rest would - on average - have to be prodigious readers to achieve those high figures. How likely is that? Additionally, do you seriously believe that the people who do a lot of reading are those who are living in shacks with no modern conveniences? Reading is a decidedly middle class occupation the world over.
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I'm guessing the illiterate were skipped completely. It's impossible to get a balanced sample unless the data is collected door-to-door. Written questionnaires ensure only literate people will respond. Telephone surveys require that the person have a telephone. Internet surveys require the internet.
I'm guessing, if we were able to trace this all the way back to the original results (which I was unable to do, but it may be out there somewhere), it may turn out to be something like "of those who participated in the following activities..." or similar.