世論 What Japan Thinks

Why this survey focused only on the young woman demographic is a bit of mystery to me, but that’s what iBridge Research Plus did in this survey reported on by japan.internet.com into web email.

Demographics

On the 9th of March 2009 300 female members of the iBridge research monitor group completed an internet-based questionnaire. 21.3% of the sample were in their twenties, 46.3% in their thirties, and 32.3% in their forties.

With some of the services described below, the email address comes as part of a package – au one Mail is an external mailbox for mobile phones, and to create a livedoor blog you need to create a livedoor email address, a process I have done myself, but both the blog and mailbox lie unused.

Research results

Of the sample, 58.3%, or 175 people, had used web-based email. They were asked the following questions.

Q1: Which of the following web-based email services have you registered for? (Sample size=175, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
Yahoo! Mail	128	73.1%
Windows Live Hotmail, Hotmail	60	34.3%
goo Mail	40	22.9%
infoseek Mail	32	18.3%
Gmail	20	11.4%
@nifty Mail	11	6.3%
au one Mail	7	4.0%
Excite Mail	5	2.9%
livedoor Mail	3	1.7%
Other	15	8.6%

Q2: Have you ever registered for a web-based email service but not used it? (Sample size=175)

Yes (to SQ)	41.7%
No	58.3%

Q2SQ: Which web-based email services have you registered for but not used? (Sample size=73, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
Yahoo! Mail	24	32.9%
goo Mail	14	19.2%
Windows Live Hotmail, Hotmail	12	16.5%
infoseek Mail	11	15.1%
Excite Mail	7	9.6%
Gmail	7	9.6%
au one Mail	5	6.8%
@nifty Mail	4	5.5%
livedoor Mail	4	5.5%
Other	5	6.8%