世論 What Japan Thinks

Given the high level of ownership of digital cameras reported in this survey from goo Research and featured on japan.internet.com, one has to wonder, as the question wasn’t answered in the article, why almost half the people manage less than 5 gigabytes of stored images.

Demographics

Between the 4th and 9th of June 2009 1,042 members of the goo Research monitor group completed an internet-based questionnaire. 52.5% of the sample were male, 16.3% in their teens, 17.7% in their twenties, 21.3% in their thirties, 16.3% in their forties, 15.6% in their fifties, and 12.8% aged sixty or older.

On the other hand, Q3 asks specifically about photographs one has taken oneself, and since it is the wife who usually uses the camera, probably less than 2 GB of the 20 GB or more is actually mine…

Research results

From the original sample 859 people, or 82.4%, owned digital compact cameras; this excludes cell phone cameras, I believe, although with the latest mobile phones having 10 megapixel cameras, the boundary between the two kinds becomes blurred.

Q1: How many digital compact cameras do you have? (Sample size=859)

One	75.9%
Two	19.0%
Three	3.3%
Four	1.4%
Five	0.1%
Six or more	0.3%

From the original sample 143 people, or 13.7%, owned digital SLR cameras.

Q2: How many digital SLR cameras do you have? (Sample size=143)

One	89.5%
Two	8.4%
Three	2.1%
Four or more	0.0%

In addition, 150 people had neither kinds of cameras, although it would have been nice to know if these 150 uses mobile phone cameras instead or just never took photos.

Q3: In total, about how much photographs that you have taken yourself do you have stored? (Sample size=892)

Under 1 GB	18.4%
1 to 5 GB	28.3%
5 to 10 GB	8.7%
10 to 25 GB	5.9%
25 to 50 GB	4.6%
50 to 75 GB	2.0%
75 to 100 GB	0.7%
More than 100 GB	5.3%
Don’t know	26.1%