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Table 3 Summary statistics

From: A quantitative approach to the 2014 Mt. Ontake volcanic eruption news coverage: understanding the information gap and the public response to the anniversary coverage

Cluster #

Nc

Nca/Nc

 

All

National

Regional

Local

All

National

Regional

Local

1 (anniversary)

570488 (27.8%)

56198 (10.2%)

196143 (40.9%)

318147 (31.2%)

0.457

0.551

0.491

0.420

2

542768 (26.4%)

261569 (47.3%)

58233 (12.1%)

222966 (21.9%)

0.340

0.364

0.340

0.312

3 (anniversary)

494017 (24.1%)

152135 (27.5%)

123673 (25.8%)

218209 (21.4%)

0.629

0.692

0.637

0.580

4

330112 (16.1%)

52335 (9.5%)

74019 (15.4%)

203758 (20.0%)

0.386

0.293

0.353

0.421

5

115435 (5.6%)

30911 (5.6%)

27411 (5.7%)

57113 (5.6%)

0.038

0.000

0.041

0.057

  1. Nc represents the total number of characters for each cluster, while Nca indicates the number of characters in articles published during anniversary months. The percentages of Nc to N (whereby N corresponds to the total number of characters) for each cluster of each newspaper type are indicated in parentheses. The label “all,” denotes all newspapers. The labels “national,” “regional,” and “local” comprise the national ones (the Asahi Shimbun, the Mainichi, the Nikkei, the Sankei Shimbun, and the Yomiuri Shimbun), the regional one (the Chunichi Shimbun), and the local one (the Shinano-Mainichi Shimbun), respectively