世論 What Japan Thinks

This Sunday’s silly survey is as usual a ranking survey from goo Ranking, looking at where or when people don’t want to meet people from the office at the weekends, split as usual into male and female responses.

Demographics

Between the 21st and 23th of May 2008 1,072 members of the goo Research monitor panel completed a private internet-based questionnaire. Exactly 50% of the sample were male, 5.7% in their teens, 12.9% in their twenties, 31.8% in their thirties, 27.5% in their forties, 11.3% in their fifties, and 10.8% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

Living in the big city and considerable far away from the office, I don’t think I’ve ever bumped into a cow-orker at the weekends, fortunately!

One presumes that as usual more dodgy activities, such as when exiting a love hotel are excluded…

Ranking results

Q: Where or when would you not want to meet people from the office at weekends? (Sample size=536, men)

Rank		Score
1	Holding hands with my girlfriend	100
2	Shopping at a bargain sale	96.6
3	At a different sort of event (presumably cosplay convention, etc)	95.8
4	When there’s an unpleasant atmosphere between me and my girlfriend	86.6
5	On a trip	84.9
6	With family	78.2
7	Buying lunch at a bento box shop	72.3
8	At a dating party	67.2
9	When going alone to karaoke, yakiniku, etc	65.5
10	In the hot tub at a hot springs, gym, etc	54.6
11	When getting henpecked by my wife	53.8
12	Headbanging at a concert	45.4
13	Reading the magazines in a convenience store	42.9
14	Eating while walking	40.3
15	Wearing ordinary clothes	36.1
16	Riding a train	35.3
17	Getting a massage, etc	24.4
18	Hot and sweaty at the gym	21.0
19	At a beauty parlour	19.3
20	Trainspotting	18.5

Q: Where or when would you not want to meet people from the office at weekends? (Sample size=536, women)

Rank		Score
1	With no make-up	100
2	Shopping at a bargain sale	75.4
3	In the hot tub at a hot springs, gym, etc	72.9
4	When there’s an unpleasant atmosphere between me and my boyfriend	59.2
5	Buying lunch at a bento box shop	50.7
6	When going alone to karaoke, yakiniku, etc	47.9
7	Eating while walking	47.9
8	Holding hands with my boyfriend	47.5
9	Wearing ordinary clothes	44.7
10	At a different sort of event (presumably cosplay convention, etc)	43.7
11	Getting a massage, etc	40.5
12	At a dating party	39.8
13	At a beauty parlour	39.4
14	On a trip	35.9
15	Headbanging at a concert	35.6
16	With family	33.8
17	Reading the magazines in a convenience store	24.6
18	Riding a train	13.4
19	Hot and sweaty at the gym	12.7
20	Trainspotting	10.6