世論 What Japan Thinks

The figure in the headline is a surprisingly high one, coming from this survey reported on by japan.internet.com and conducted by Marsh Inc into measures to prevent leaks of information.

Demographics

Over the 28th and 29th of August 2008 300 people from the Marsh monitor panel with home computers completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.0% of the sample were female, and 20.0% in each age group from the twenties to the over-sixties.

The difference in Q1 between online shopping and online checkout is that many services offer not just online payment, but also offline payment at convenience store kiosks, and even cash on delivery to said convenience stores.

For Q2SQ, my wife had that, filling in a dodgy survey from a site linked from a popular trustworthy site, and she gets about 10 spam per day from them.

Research results

Q1: What kinds of measures do you take to prevent information leaks? (Sample size=300)

	Votes	Percentage
Have security software installed	210	70.0%
Don’t do online check-out	16	5.3%
Don’t do online shopping	6	2.0%
Don’t use services that require an ID and password	5	1.7%
Don’t do online user registration	3	1.0%
Other	4	1.3%
Don’t use anything in particular	76	25.3%

Q2: Have you had an incident with personal information being leaked online? (Sample size=300)

Yes (to SQ)	24.7%
No	75.3%

Q2SQ1: How did your information come to be leaked? (Sample size=74)

Financial, other information leaked from a web site I was registered at	45.9%
Someone else holding my personal information had an information leak	13.5%
Accessed a phishing site	8.1%
Filled in a fake online survey	8.1%
Lost information through a virus, other malware	4.1%
Someone disclosed my personal details	4.1%
Blog	2.7%
Other	13.5%

I’m not sure why this question is not multiple choice!