世論 What Japan Thinks

Maids versus butlers would be a good title for a video game I suspect, but here it is just two related surveys from iShare, one on maids and the other on butlers.

Demographics

For the maid survey, between the 10th and 17th of August 2009 618 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 56.6% of the sample were male, 34.3% in their twenties, 30.4% in their thirties, and 35.3% in their forties.

For the butler survey, between the 11th and 18th of August 2009 587 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 54.7% of the sample were male, 33.6% in their twenties, 32.0% in their thirties, and 34.4% in their forties.

I’ll report the two surveys interleaved as the questions are similar in each. First will be the maid question which I will suffix with an M, so we get Q1M, for instance, then the butler question with a B, as in Q1B, etc.

Both maid cafes and butler cafes exist in Japan, as do female butler cafes, and no doubt male maid ones do too, but I’m not really in the mood for searching. Incidentally, I’ve recently twice seen on my train back from work a guy looking like a very ordinary otaku type except for a cheap maid dress, trying to hide his stubble behind some foundation, so perhaps he works at some low-end seedy male maid joint?
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goo Research, in a survey reported on by japan.internet.com, looked at mobile phones, with this report focusing on the usage of the address books within mobile phones.

Demographics

Between the 19th and 24th of August 2009 1,070 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.1% of the sample were male, 16.7% in their teens, 17.9% in their twenties, 21.4% in their thirties, 16.0% in their forties, 15.9% in their fifties, and 12.1% aged sixty or older.

I haven’t backed up my mobile’s phone book for at least a year, I think, but then again I have so few entries that last year’s backup is probably still valid!

I was suprised to see that only about 5% use the shortcut dial feature, less than those typing numbers in directly. As far as I know most mobile phones have a feature where if you type in the address book index (one or two digits are OK, I think) then press the dial button it dials that entry, which is handy for me as my wife is registered in slot one.
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