世論 What Japan Thinks

Here’s a fun wee survey from goo Ranking, looking at the top ten jobs that Japanese wanted to do when they were a child, for both boys and girls.

Demographics

Over the 24th and 24th of May 2011 1,085 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.5% of the sample were male, 11.0% in their teens, 15.3% in their twenties, 27.5% in their thirties, 25.1% in their forties, 12.6% in their fifties, and 8.6% 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.

I’m actually surprised by the results being a bit more adult that when I was a kid. Doctors, football players, pilots and spacemen was as far as we got, none of this author business or translators or diplomats. However, I do suspect there is a little bit of selective memory going on, as there are no train drivers for the boys.

When my brother was in the last year at primary school, I think it was, he wrote an essay on what he wanted to be; a dog eutheniser at the police pound.

Ranking results

Q: What did you want to be when you grew up? (Sample size=580, male)

Rank	&nbsp	Score
1	Sportsman	100
2	Pilot	53.6
3	Doctor	36.4
4	Author, manga creator	32.5
5	Schoolteacher	27.2
6	Astronaut	24.5
7	Baker, cake maker	19.9
8	Lawyer	17.9
9=	Singer	13.9
9=	Diplomat	13.9

Q: What did you want to be when you grew up? (Sample size=505, female)

Rank	&nbsp	Score
1	Baker, cake maker	100
2	Schoolteacher	65.0
3	Author, manga creator	48.6
4	Singer	39.3
5	Nurse	35.7
6	Television presenter	19.3
7	Interpreter, translator	14.3
8	Model	10.7
9	Doctor	9.3
10	Lawyer	7.1