世論 What Japan Thinks

A recent survey from iBridge Research Plus and reported on by japan.internet.com into the topic of web-based email amongst a young female demographic found almost a majority had a Yahoo! email account.

Demographics

On the 28th of September 2009 300 female members of the iBridge Research Plus monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 24.3% of the sample were in their twenties, 46.3% in their thirties, and 29.3% in their forties,

I did once try to recommend Gmail to my wife by sending her an invitation, but she never took me up, despite telling her about its excellent support for emoji!

Research results

When the same survey was conducted in March, 58.3% had web email accounts, but now it has climbed to 66.3%. These 199 people answered the following question.

Q1: Which of the following web-based email services have you registered for? (Sample size=199, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
Yahoo! Mail	142	71.4%
Windows Live, Hotmail	84	42.2%
infoseek mail	39	19.6%
goo mail	38	19.1%
Gmail	31	15.6%
livedoor mail	16	8.0%
@nifty mail	13	6.5%
au one mail	6	3.0%
Excite mail	4	2.0%
Other	13	6.5%

Q2: Have you ever registered for a web-based email service but not used it? (Sample size=199)

Yes (to SQ)	39.2%
No	60.8%

Q2SQ: Which web-based email services have you registered for but not used? (Sample size=78, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
Yahoo! Mail	24	30.8%
Windows Live, Hotmail	18	23.1%
infoseek mail	17	21.8%
goo mail	14	17.9%
Gmail	12	15.4%
livedoor mail	9	11.5%
@nifty mail	6	7.7%
au one mail	4	5.1%
Excite mail	1	1.3%
Other	6	7.7%