Almost one in three Japanese have lost mobile electronics
Advertisement
japan.internet.com recently reported on a survey conducted by JR Tokai Express Research Inc into the subject of losing portable electronic devices.
Demographics
On the 23rd of August 2007 331 members of JR Tokai Express Research Inc’s online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 63.4% were male, 17.5% in their twenties, 31.7% in their thirties, 32.6% in their forties, 14.5% in their fifties, and 3.6% in their sixties.
Last year I translated a similar survey on forgetting electronic items which might be useful as a cross reference. I’ve not lost anything more since the last questionnaire, although I nearly did leave my notebook computer in a restaurant only to get the staff return it to me as I was paying the bill.
Research results
Q1: Have you ever left a portable electronic device behind anywhere other than at work or at home? (Sample size=331)
| Yes (to SQs) | 32.6% |
| No | 67.4% |
Q1SQ1: What portable electronic devices did you leave behind? (Sample size=108, multiple answer)
| Votes | Percentage | |
| Mobile phone | 94 | 87.0% |
| Digital camera | 13 | 12.0% |
| iPod or other digital audio player | 7 | 6.5% |
| Notebook computer | 6 | 5.6% |
| CD player | 3 | 2.8% |
| PDA | 2 | 1.9% |
| IC voice recorder | 2 | 1.9% |
| Transistor radio | 0 | 0.0% |
| Casette tape player | 0 | 0.0% |
| Other | 0 | 0.0% |
Q1SQ2: What did you do after you realised you had left a portable electronic device behind? (Sample size=108, multiple answer)
| Votes | Percentage | |
| Went to pick it up | 88 | 81.5% |
| Had it delivered, picked up for me | 16 | 14.8% |
| Went to look but couldn’t find | 7 | 6.5% |
| Just left it there | 1 | 0.9% |
| Other | 4 | 3.7% |
Custom Search
Subscribe to feed