世論 What Japan Thinks

I don’t know if it’s all part of the mood of self-restraint or economising since the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake Disaster, but the two main survey sources I use have been printing shorter than usual surveys, which means I’m seeing an economic effect of the recent earthquake, which was also the subject of a recent survey by iShare.

Demographics

Between the 8th and 11th of April 2011 761 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service employed either full-time or part-time or self-employed completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 59.1% of the sample were male, 2.1% were in their twenties, 45.5% were in their thirties, and 52.4% in their forties. Due to iShare making an error in reporting the male-female ratio, I can deduce that the original sample was 922 people, so 161 people, or 17.5% of the original sample were either unemployed, in casual work, or full-time homemakers.

I’m very surprised that only the minority have seen adverse effects, as it seems that almost all businesses are being affected to some extent by the mood of self-restraint, or even just simply breaks in the supply chain due to upstream or downstream companies being directly affected by the earthquake or tsunami.

However, my own workplace has had no direct adverse effects, but I suppose working in research and development we don’t have any real customers.

Research results

Q1: Since the earthquake on the 11th or March 2011, have sales dropped, orders decreased, or other adverse ecomonic effects occurred at work? (Sample size=761)

	All	Male N=450	Female N=311
Yes (to SQ)	47.7%	49.8%	44.7%
No	52.3%	50.2%	55.3%

Q1SQ: Have you a forecast for when the adverse ecomonic effects will lessen? (Sample size=363)

	All	Male N=224	Female N=139
Yes	10.5%	12.1%	7.9%
No	89.5%	87.9%	92.1%

Combining the two we get:

Q1+Q1SQ: Have you a forecast for when the adverse ecomonic effects will lessen? (Sample size=761)

	All	Male N=450	Female N=311
Yes	5.0%	6.0%	3.5%
No	42.7%	43.8%	41.2%
Had no adverse economic effects	52.3%	50.2%	55.3%