世論 What Japan Thinks

Despite the suspicious-looking title and the dodgy picture, it’s not Sunday and a silly ranking, but a serious survey from iShare into alcohol consumption and indiscretions.

Demographics

Between the 24th and 30th of April 2009 398 mobile phone-using members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private interent-based questionnaire. 51.8% of the sample were male, 39.4% in their twenties, 30.4% in their thirties, and 30.2% in their forties.

There’s so much interesting data here I hardly know where to start! In Q1SQ2 women rate themselves as stronger drinkers than men, although perhaps they are compaing themselves with other women rather than men? In Q1SQ5, it’s quite a surprisingly high number of people who’ve ended up on one-night-stands (or worse) due to alcohol.

Captioned photo based on an image from JanneM on flickr.

Research results

Q1: Have you ever drunk alcohol? (Sample size=398)

	All	Male N=206	Female N=192
Yes (to SQ1 to SQ4)	84.2%	83.0%	85.4%
No (to SQ6)	15.8%	17.0%	14.6%

Q1SQ1: How do you most often get asked to go for a drink? (Sample size=335)

	All	Male N=171	Female N=164
Face-to-face	38.5%	36.3%	35.4%
Mobile phone email	35.2%	29.8%	40.9%
Computer email	16.7%	19.3%	14.0%
Telephone	11.0%	13.5%	8.5%
Internet chat	1.2%	1.2%	1.2%

Q1SQ2: Can you hold your drink? (Sample size=335)

	All	Male N=171	Female N=164
Yes, I never get drunk	1.8%	0.6%	3.0%
Yes, can hold my drink	9.9%	11.7%	7.9%
Yes, to some extent	22.4%	19.3%	25.6%
About average	24.2%	25.7%	22.6%
No, to some extent	21.5%	25.7%	17.1%
No, not at all	20.3%	17.0%	23.8%

Q1SQ3: Have you ever had a blackout from drinking? (Sample size=335)

	All	Male N=171	Female N=164
Yes	32.5%	36.8%	28.0%
No	67.5%	63.2%	72.0%

Q1SQ4: Have you ever had an indiscretion due to drinking? (Sample size=335)

	All	Male N=171	Female N=164
Yes (to SQ5)	41.5%	45.6%	37.2%
No	58.5%	54.4%	62.8%

Those who claimed to be able to hold their drink were more like to have had indiscretions that those who get drunk easily.

Q1SQ5: What kinds of indiscretions have you had? (Sample size=139, multiple answer)

	All	Male N=78	Female N=61
Caused bother by vomiting	54.0%	59.0%	47.5%
Caused bother by getting ill	38.8%	39.7%	37.7%
Got involved with someone	23.7%	21.8%	26.2%
Got verbally abusive	22.3%	30.8%	11.5%
Slept in a strange place	21.6%	20.5%	23.0%
Cried	14.4%	11.5%	18.0%
Shouted, sung, etc	11.5%	11.5%	11.5%
Got into an argument	8.6%	12.8%	3.3%
Vigorously pulled someone	4.3%	0.0%	9.8%
Got carted off to the hospital due to drink	4.3%	6.4%	1.6%
Got naked	2.2%	2.6%	1.6%
Got carted off to the police station	1.4%	1.3%	1.6%
Other	9.4%	7.7%	11.5%

Q1SQ6: Has not drinking ever been the cause of an indiscretion? (Sample size=63)

	All	Male N=35	Female N=28
Yes	1.6%	0.0%	3.6%
No	98.4%	100.0%	96.4%

Q2: Have you ever deepened the trust in interpersonal relations with someone when out drinking? (Sample size=398)

	All	Male N=206	Female N=192
Yes	58.3%	59.2%	57.3%
No	41.7%	40.8%	42.7%

Q3: Have you ever experienced a rift in trust in interpersonal relations with someone when out drinking? (Sample size=398)

	All	Male N=206	Female N=192
Yes	19.3%	20.4%	18.2%
No	80.7%	79.6%	81.8%