世論 What Japan Thinks

I’m not really much of a fan of voice calls in any shape or form, and I do find it difficult to hear properly on a mobile phone, but it seems I am very much in the minority in Japan judging by the results of this survey by JR Tokai Express Research Inc and reported on by japan.internet.com into voice calls.

Demographics

On the 9th of July 2008 331 members of the JR Tokai Express Research monitor group employed in either the public or private sector completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 77.0% of the sample were male, 8.2% in their twenties, 34.7% in their thirties, 44.1% in their forties, 12.4% in their fifties, and 0.6% in their sixties.

My use of my home phone is limited to once every two weeks when I have a midnight teleconference, and my mobile phone to perhaps once a month when I need to contact my wife more directly than with email.

Research results

Of the initial 331, only 285 people were currently employed in the public or private sector. I don’t know why there always seems to be a big over-reporting of employment within JR Tokai’s research pool. These 285 were asked the following question.

Q1: Who is the service provider for your fixed line at home? (Sample size=285)

NTT	65.3%
KDDI	9.8%
SoftBank Telecom	2.8%
Internet Service Provider’s VoIP solution	16.5%
Other	1.8%
Don’t have a fixed line	3.9%

Compared with when the last time this survey was performed (no date given), NTT has lost 4.1 percentage points and Voice over IP solutions gained 4.7 percentage points.

For this question, the 11 who did not have a fixed-line phone were excluded.

Q2: On average, how often do you make calls from your fixed-line home telephone? (Sample size=274)

Five or more times a day	0.4%
One to four times a day	4.7%
Several times a week	20.8%
Once or twice a week	16.1%
Several times a month	18.6%
Once or twice a month	20.1%
Several times a year	9.9%
Once or twice a year	0.4%
Almost never	9.1%

For this question, the 9 who did not have a mobile phone were excluded.

Q3: On average, how often do you make calls from your mobile phone? (Sample size=276)

Five or more times a day	7.6%
One to four times a day	35.5%
Several times a week	26.8%
Once or twice a week	10.5%
Several times a month	12.0%
Once or twice a month	4.7%
Several times a year	1.4%
Once or twice a year	0.0%
Almost never	1.4%