Youth in Northeastern States Read the Most: Survey

Focusing on the northeast, it said this region is home to a relatively higher proportion (23 percent) of the literate youth from Scheduled Tribe (ST) community.

Moreover, a relatively higher concentration of Muslim literate youth is noticed in this part since about one-third of the literate youth in this region are Muslims, followed by another 18 percent Christians.

Though Assam is known as the entry point to the northeastern states with comparatively improved infrastructure and better economic prospects, the survey said the proportion of leisure book readers in the state (39 percent) is much lower than in Mizoram (62 percent), Manipur (52 percent) and Nagaland (47 percent).

It said the percentage of youth who read leisure books in rural areas is the highest in Nagaland (57 percent) and lowest in Arunachal Pradesh (12 percent). Price, it revealed, is the most important factor in this region while purchasing leisure books, followed by subject and author profile.

For rural Maharashtra, subject is the most important weighing factor while the next important factor is price which has only a marginal amount of higher support over the author profile, it said.

The survey was conducted by adopting face-to-face interviews of the sample youths using a questionnaire-based approach to increase accuracy and ensure adequate item response.

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