世論 What Japan Thinks

As well as informing my readers about Japan, I also like to throw in some of my own heritage, here the word bidie-in, a far better word than the clinical cohabitee, the subject of this recent survey from goo Ranking into what people could not stand about their bidie-in.

Demographics

Over the 21st and 22nd of October 2010 1,075 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 66.3% of the sample were female, 9.9% in their teens, 18.1% in their twenties, 30.9% in their thirties, 24.7% in their forties, 8.8% in their fifties, and 7.5% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

Ranking result

Q: What couldn’t you stand about a flatmate or cohabitee of the opposite sex? (Sample size=1,075)

Rank		Score
1	Not putting stuff away when they are finished with it	100
2	Unfair division of housework	83.7
3	Different preferences for flavouring	81.5
4	Their snoring, sleeping posture	80.2
5	Different preferences on television programs to watch	71.4
6	Different sleeping times	66.1
7	Different frequencies for tidying up	64.8
8	Them eating food I’d bought and stored up	43.6
9	I cannot invite friends round	41.9
10	Their slovenly character	40.1