世論 What Japan Thinks

Having seen at the end of last year that over three in four are hurting financially, iShare followed up with a look at taking on a second job.

Demographics

Between the 4th and 7th of January 2010 495 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 55.4% of the sample were male, 33.5% in their twenties, 31.9% in their thirties, and 34.5% in their forties.

16.1% of the men unemployed seems a very high percentage, and with only 4% between the figures for those in their twenties versus those in their thirties and forties, one cannot really say it is due to student numbers. I’d love to see the age figures broken down by sex just to see if there’s a trend.

I suppose I should count What Japan Thinks as my second job, and I wish I could say that I’m using the earnings to save for travel, but sadly it barely makes enough to cover my living expenses gap…

Research results

Q1: Are you currently employed? (Sample size=495)

	All	Male N=274	Female N=221
Yes (to SQs)	78.2%	83.9%	71.0%
No	21.8%	16.1%	29.0%

Q1SQ1: How satisfied are you with your salary in your main job? (Sample size=387)

	All	Male N=230	Female N=157
Completely satisfied	3.6%	3.9%	3.2%
Perhaps satisfied	30.7%	33.5%	26.8%
Perhaps dissatisfied	41.1%	37.8%	45.9%
Completely dissatisfied	24.5%	24.8%	24.2%

Q1SQ2: Do you have second job? (Sample size=387)

	All	Male N=230	Female N=157
Yes, currently (to SQ3)	16.5%	20.4%	10.8%
Used to have (to SQ4)	17.3%	15.2%	20.4%
No, never (to SQ4)	66.1%	64.3%	68.8%

Q1SQ3: To what use do you put the money from your second job? (Sample size=64, multiple answer)

	All	Male N=47	Female N=17
Building savings, investments	57.8%	63.8%	41.2%
Living expenses	43.8%	38.3%	58.8%
Travel, hobby	32.8%	38.3%	17.6%
Dates, socialising	9.4%	10.6%	5.9%
Repay loan	7.8%	4.3%	17.6%
Education expenses	1.6%	2.1%	0.0%
Other	3.1%	4.3%	0.0%

Q1SQ4: Would you like to try a second job? (Sample size=323)

	All	Male N=183	Female N=140
Yes (to SQ5)	41.8%	40.4%	43.6%
No	58.2%	59.6%	56.4%

Not surprisingly, the more dissatisfied people were with their salary, the more likely they were to want a second job.

Q1SQ5: To what use would you want to put the money from a second job? (Sample size=135, multiple answer)

	All	Male N=74	Female N=61
Living expenses	65.2%	63.5%	67.2%
Travel, hobby	60.0%	56.8%	63.9%
Building savings, investments	53.3%	45.9%	62.3%
Dates, socialising	20.0%	20.3%	19.7%
Repay loan	17.0%	24.3%	8.2%
Education expenses	11.9%	17.6%	4.9%
Other	2.2%	4.1%	0.0%