世論 What Japan Thinks

Although there are just 371 or so confirmed cases of the “new-type” flu, as it’s officially-labelled in Japan, a look by iBridge Research Plus at swine flu and other spam email and reported on by japan.internet.com found that within their sample swine flu-related electronic viruses were also infectious.

Demographics

On the 25th of May 2009 300 members of the iBridge monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 54.3% of the sample were male, 19.7% in their twenties, 36.7% in their thirties, 28.7% in their forties, 14.3% in their fifties, and 0.7% in their sixties.

I’m not sure why this survey used “swine flu” in all their questions whereas, as mentioned above, “new-type flu” is the almost universal name.

I’d love to know how 2% of the population managed to avoid hearing any news about swine flu!

I’ve not seen any swine flu virus spam, but in a couple of weeks I’ll be heading off to right by the Mexican border, so I might be able to experience it first-hand!

Research results

Q1: Have you seen or read any news about swine influenza? (Sample size=300)

Yes (to SQ1)	98.0%
No	2.0%

Q1SQ1: At home, work, school, etc since this April have you received any swine influenza spam email? (Sample size=294)

Yes (to SQ2)	6.5%
No	93.5%

Q1SQ2: Did you open that swine influenza spam email? (Sample size=19)

Yes (to SQ3)	31.6%
No	68.4%

Q1SQ3: Did you get a virus from opening that swine influenza spam email? (Sample size=6)

Yes	16.7%
No	83.3%