A study prepared by the international Ipsos Research Center, which was presented at a recent communications conference in Jordan, found that Arabs spend an average of eight hours a day–or one third of their lives–using mobile phones, surfing the Internet or watching television.
The study, conducted in six Arab countries, found that the average Arab citizen watches television for four hours every day; talks on mobile phones for an hour and a half; surfs the Internet for an hour; and spends the remaining eight hours listening to the radio, reading newspapers or playing video games.
It also found that 54 percent of citizens in Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt considered television their "main source" of information, while the Internet represented the main source of information for most citizens of the Gulf.
As to book-reading, the United Arab Emirates scored highest, at 54 percent of the population, followed by Lebanon (53 percent) and Jordan (47 percent). Egypt, for its part, scored only 10 percent.
Translated from the Arabic Edition.
