世論 What Japan Thinks

I know yesterday was Silly Sunday, but I’ve had this survey sitting on my hard disk for ages, so I thought I’d just get this look at why people think they can’t get promotion, conducted as usual by goo Ranking.

Demographics

Between the 25th and 28th of July 2008 1,072 members of the goo Research online monitor panel completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.3% of the sample were male, 5.7% in their teens, 14.4% in their twenties, 31,0% in their thirties, 28.1% in their forties, 10.5% in their fifties, and 10.4% 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.

None of the answers were “Because I spend all my time filling (or translating for that matter!) these stupid surveys”, however.

I was also rather free with my translation of answer 2.

Ranking results

Q: Why do you think you just can’t get promotion? (Sample size=1,072)

Rank		Score
1	I’m poor at expressing my thoughts to others	100
2	I’m an anti-social git	87.8
3	I settle everything by myself	81.2
4	My boss doesn’t recognise my talents	71.3
5	I have no ambition	59.7
6	I’m poor at presentation, explanation	58.6
7	My boss hates me	54.1
8	I’m not in the right clique	51.4
9=	I’m surrounded by people better than me	50.3
9=	I’m a shoddy worker	50.3
11	I don’t care about those around me	47.5
12	I don’t want to take on something new	42.5
13	I switched jobs mid-career	37.0
14	I don’t develop my sub-ordinates	35.4
15	I don’t go drinking with my boss, colleagues	33.7
16	I only do what I’m instructed to do	27.6
17	I’ve no physical strength	23.8
18	I’m always making the same mistakes	22.1
19	My colleagues are dragging me down	20.4
20	I’m not in the old boy’s network	19.9