Children and Parents: Media Use and Attitudes Report 2018

What is it?

This annual report from Ofcom examines children’s media literacy, providing evidence on media use, attitudes and understanding among children and young people aged 5-15.

It also includes findings related to:

• How young children aged 3-4 access and use media.
• Parents’ views about their children’s media use, and the ways that parents seek – or decide not – to monitor or limit use of different types of media. 

Issues covered within the report include:

• Technology used by children
• Time spent online by children 
• Social media and online gaming
• Children's attitudes and concerns
• Parent's attitudes and concerns

Where to find it

View the full Ofcom report for 2018 (released January 2019) here.

You can also find research commissioned by Ofcom exploring the type of video content children are watching, how they reach it, why they choose it. Download it here.