Householdsďż˝ radio ownership declines

Some residents of Old Naledi listening to the 2013 Budget Speech FOLE PIC
Some residents of Old Naledi listening to the 2013 Budget Speech FOLE PIC

Despite an increase in the use of television sets, the number of Batswana households with radios has fallen by 2.1 percentage points between 2011 and 2014.

According to the 2014 ICT Survey that was published by Statistics Botswana (SB) this week, the proportion of households with a radio set in Botswana stood at 59.4% in 2014, which is a decrease from 61.5 percent recorded in the 2011 Population and Housing Census.

“The trend over the years shows a decrease in household ownership of radio sets,” says the agency.

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