世論 What Japan Thinks

Last month’s earthquake resulted in just about all the trains around Tokyo being cancelled, so in a recent survey from goo Research into the day the earthquake occurred, japan.internet.com’s report focused on how people got home.

Demographics

Between the 31st of March and the 2nd of April 2011 1,079 members of the goo Research monitor group who lived in either Tokyo or the surrounding prefectures of Kanagawa and Saitama completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.0% of the sample were male, 16.7% in their teens, 18.0% in their twenties, 21.5% in their thirties, 16.1% in their forties, 15.8% in their fifties, and 11.9% aged sixty or older.

In an earlier survey from iShare, I did express surprise that about 85% claimed they could walk home, but this survey does seem to back up that figure.

I know that one of my fellow bloggers got stuck in Disneyland after the earthquake, but he didn’t try walking home from there…

Research results

Of the sample, 604 people, or 56.0%, were employed in private industry, and of them 601 worked in Tokyo or the suburbs. These 601 were asked the following question.

Q1: On the day the earthquake occurred, could you return home? (Sample size=601)

Returned home (to SQs)	77.4%
Couldn’t return home	22.6%

Q1SQ1: How did you return home? (Sample size=465, multiple answer)

On foot	52.7%
Train, bus, other public transport	17.8%
Car	17.6%
Bicycle	15.5%
Taxi	2.8%
Other	14.4%

Q1SQ2: Did you use your mobile phone or smartphone’s navigation feature while returning home? (Sample size=465)

Used it	9.0%
Didn’t use it	77.2%
Don’t know how to use GPS	2.6%
Don’t have GPS	9.2%
Don’t have mobile phone	1.9%