Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America
Reading At Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America -- This report presents the results from the literature segment of the Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, conducted by the Census Bureau in 2002 at the NEA's request. The survey asked more than 17,000 adults if during the previous 12 months they had read any novels, short stories, poetry or plays in their leisure time, that were not required for work or school.