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On a weekly basis, face-to-face is the most-used method for communicating with friends and family

Figure 1.17 shows that when the timeframe is extended to ‘at least once a week’, face-to-face meetings (86%) emerge as the most common way of communicating with friends and family. Text messages (70%), telephone calls (67% mobile, 55% fixed) and emails (47%) were the next most popular methods.

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