世論 What Japan Thinks

iShare’s latest look at earthquake-related issues was on how people obtained information relating to the earthquake/a>, finding, fortunately, that most people relied on official sources, not bonkers bloggers.

Demographics

On the 15th of April 2011 1,193 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.3% of the sample were male, 8.9% in their twenties, 45.7% in their thirties, and 45.4% in their forties.

I too used television news as my main source, and after about a month of wall-to-wall news, I, like the majority in Q2SQ, felt a lack of information on switching back to normal programming. What was your own most important news source?

Research results

Q1: For the first week after the earthquake, what did you use as your most important source of information (including nuclear incident-related information)? (Sample size=1,193)

	All	Male N=624	Female N=569
Television programs	50.2%	46.3%	54.5%
Internet news	21.4%	25.5%	16.9%
Twitter	8.5%	6.6%	10.5%
2 channel bulletin board	5.0%	4.3%	5.8%
Radio programs	3.8%	4.2%	3.3%
Newspapers	2.8%	2.2%	3.5%
Ustream	2.4%	3.0%	1.8%
Other blogs, web sites	2.3%	3.5%	0.9%
Word of mouth	1.4%	1.9%	0.9%
mixi, GREE, other SNS	0.6%	0.5%	0.7%
Other	1.6%	1.9%	1.2%

Q2: Since the first week after the earthquake (from the 18th or March), have you been watching television? (Sample size=1,193)

	All	Male N=624	Female N=569
Frequently (to SQ)	44.7%	37.3%	52.7%
Sometimes (to SQ)	44.8%	49.8%	39.2%
Almost never	10.6%	12.8%	8.1%

Q2SQ: After the earthquake the commercial programs switched to broadcasting special information programs. However, from the 12th of April Tokyo Television was the first to return to normal broadcasting schedules, and the rest soon followed. Do you feel you are now getting enough information about the disaster, including the nuclear incident? (Sample size=1,067)

	All	Male N=544	Female N=523
Yes, enough	41.4%	41.5%	41.3%
No, not enough	58.6%	58.5%	58.7%