Voice calling and reading email popular activities while walking
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A recent report from japan.internet.com on a survey conducted by goo Research into mobile phone manners found that most people are not far from their mobile phones.
Demographics
Between the 27th of April and the 6th of May 2011 1,092 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.9% of the sample were male, 16.6% in their teens, 18.0% in their twenties, 21.6% in their thirties, 16.0% in their forties, 15.7% in their fifties, and 12.1% aged sixty or older.
One curious omission from Q1SQ is watching television or video; I don’t think just 0.5% have done so!
Also, although just 1.1% reported regularly talking on their phones on trains, I suspect that meant people who make calls without bothering about the annoyance they might be causing others. In my experience there’s always one or two people furtively making or receiving calls when I ride the train home!
Research results
Q1: How often do you carry your mobile phone with you? (Sample size=1,092)
Usually (to SQ) 69.3% Often (to SQ) 23.9% Sometimes (to SQ) 1.7% Never, don’t have mobile 5.0% Q1SQ: Which of the following have you done while walking on the pavement, inside stations, etc? (Sample size=1,037, multiple answer)
Votes Percentage Voice calls 768 74.1% Reading email 740 71.4% Sending and receiving email 616 59.4% Writing email 539 52.0% Viewing web sites 351 33.8% Writing to SNS 89 8.6% Playing games 76 7.3% Writing to blogs 47 4.5% Doing online shopping 23 2.2% Other 5 0.5% Never used my mobile while walking 136 12.1% Furthermore, just 1.1% of these 1,037 people admitted to regularly talking on their mobile in the train, a major breach of etiquette.
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“In my experience there’s always one or two people furtively making or receiving calls when I ride the train home!”
One car takes about a hundred people at any one time. And people get on and off at every station. Even with an only half-full evening commute there will easily have been two-hundred different people in your car between your start and end station. In which case your “one or two people” would fit nicely with the reported 1.1% rate.