Bookworms from Kluczbork

Bookworms from Kluczbork

A few months ago we did a survey about reading books in our town. We asked a lot of people - adults, teenagers and pensioners. Their answers were similar, but in many ways their opinions were different. We asked about popular books' authors or authors of set books too. The results of the quiz turned out to be surprising. It was foreseeable - only 1 out of 3 polled students declare eagerness to read all the set books. Around 40% of them prefer reading abstracts. Almost 50% borrows book (but not set books) from the library more often than once a year. Just 5 out of 30 polled students declare reading books in foreign languages. We asked them about their favourite author too. They listed many authors, but Stephen King is the real king of their classification.

 

We conducted our survey in three different age groups. The first group was adults by the age of 40. It turned out that over 50% of them read regularly or read although they said they had little time to do so. It was surprising that 75% of the respondents at this age can’t enumerate more than 3 benefits of reading. Generally they said that reading expands our knowledge and imagination. Then we asked people if we read book more rarely with age. The answers surprised us. We thought that it is true. We wondered because 40% of people said that they read more often and 40% of people claimed that they read more rarely with age. Only 10% of the surveyed said that they didn’t see any difference.

The next group of the respondents were people at the age of  40 to 60. Their answers differed slightly from the previous group. They read and borrow books as often. They responded that they spend most of the time in the open air and play sports e.g. go cycling instead of reading.

The last group was adults over 60. 70% of them read regularly. But they can't  give more than 3 benefits of reading too. Most of them mention Juliusz Slowacki as their favourite writer. They prefer reading books about history and nature. They seldom borrow books from the library. Most of them admit that they prefer to buy a book rather than borrow it.

Questions about authors turned out to be not as easy as we were assuming. Half a dozen of interviewees remembered who the author of “Anne of Green Gables”, “The Little Prince” or “Sir Kleks Academy ” is. Only 1 of 6 people answered all the questions correctly.

People were very willing to talk with us. In this article we attached photos of interviewees.

To sum up, we did nearly 60 surveys and 40 quizzes.