Mobile Myanmar: The Impact of Social Media on Young People Living in Conflict-Affected Regions of Myanmar SOCIAL MEDIA USE SURVEY: RESULTS A brief social media use survey was administered to all FGD participants and a convenience sample of participants recruited from public spaces in each of the selected research sites, such as youth centres, tea shops, high schools and universities. A summary of survey results and comparisons between different demographics are presented here. Full survey results by gender, state and sub-sample are available in Appendix D. Demographics The overall sample size for the survey was 256. Twenty-four participants were excluded as they were outside the target age range for the study (13–35 years). The sample available for analysis was therefore 232, with 107 responses from Kayah State (39 rural and 68 urban) and 125 from Rakhine State (61 IDP and 64 urban). The gender split of the overall sample was very even, with 48.7% females and 47.8% males (0.4% selected transgender, and 3.0% did not answer or selected ‘I prefer not to say’). However, there were more female respondents in the Kayah Rural sample (64.7%) and more male respondents in the Muslim IDP sample (63.9%). The mean overall age was 21.84 years (SD = 3.94, range 14–35 years). While there were with no significant differences in age between genders or states, the Rakhine Urban subsample was significantly older (M = 23.08, SD = 3.66) than the Kayah Urban (M = 21.04, SD = 4.67; p = .003) and Muslim IDP subsamples (M = 21.15, SD = 2.94; p = .006). Phone use Just over half of the sample report spending between 1 and 5 hours a day on their phone (53.0%), and 17.0% spent more than 5 hours a day. Approximately one third of the sample either did not use their phone every day (15.7%) or did so for less than one hour a day (14.3%). The distribution of responses by sub-sample are shown in Figure 1. When responses were converted to an ordinal 1-6 point scale, Kruskal-Wallis tests revealed that on average, the Rakhine State sub-samples used their phone significantly more than the Kayah State sub-samples (p < .001) and IDP respondents significantly more than urban or rural respondents (p < .01). Males respondents used their phone more than female respondents, however this difference did not reach significance (p = .051). Figure 1: Average daily mobile phone use 50% 40% Kayah Urban Kayah Rural Rakhine Urban Muslim IDP 30% 20% 10% 0% Not every day < 1 hour 1-3 hours 3-5 hours 86 5-7 hours > 7 hours