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Current and expected activities related to politics
- Ninth-grade U.S. students reported discussing political issues with teachers and parents, but
discussions of U.S. politics were more likely to occur than discussions of international politics.
- Male ninth-grade students were more likely to report discussing international political issues
with people their own age than were their female counterparts.
- Students who reported using newspapers as a source of political information were more
likely to read about domestic politics than to read about international politics.
- Television was the primary source that ninth-grade U.S. students relied on to obtain information
about politics.
- Female and male students as well as U.S.-born and foreign-born students all reported television
as their primary source of political news and radio as their least likely source, and with
similar levels of frequency.
- U.S. students' average score on the expected participation in political activities scale was
higher than the international average.
- Female ninth-grade students were more likely than their male counterparts to expect to be
politically active as adults (Figure 7).
- Results indicated no differences in expected political participation by race or country of birth
(Figure 7).
- Students in households containing 100 or fewer books were less likely to report expecting to
participate in political life as adults than students in households containing more than 200
books (Figure 7).
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