Using Structured Observation and Content Analysis to Explore the Presence of Older People in Public Fora in Developing Countries
Table 3
Images of people by age and gender in pictures in newspapers from seven cities.
City
Haleb
Amman
Luxor
Bangkok
Nairobi
Arusha
Sheffield
Total
(%)
(%)
(%)
(%)
(%)
(%)
(%)
(%)
Pictures examined
114 (7.96)
136 (9.49)
236 (16.5)
450 (31.4)
170 (11.9)
93 (6.49)
234 (16.3)
1433 (100)
Picture content
Older men
9 (7.89)
3 (2.21)
23 (9.75)
30 (6.67)
15 (8.82)
4 (4.30)
4 (1.71)
88 (6.14)
Older women
0 (0.0)
0 (0.0)
2 (0.85)
9 (2.00)
11 (6.47)
1 (1.08)
4 (1.71)
27 (1.88)
Non-older men
69 (60.5)
98 (72.1)
177 (75.0)
293 (65.1)
114 (67.1)
61 (65.6)
126 (53.8)
938 (65.6)
Non-older women
14 (12.3)
27 (19.9)
45 (19.1)
172 (38.2)
49 (28.8)
20 (21.5)
58 (24.8)
385 (26.9)
Note: percentages do not total 100 within countries as some pictures contained images of people from more than one age/gender category while age/gender category could not be determined in other pictures.
