世論 What Japan Thinks

The final summer holiday-themed survey for today is a look at what tough summer holiday experiences Japanese had as children.

Demographics

Over the 6th and 7th of June 2011 1,148 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.6% of the sample were male, 12.1% in their teens, 16.9% in their twenties, 28.0% in their thirties, 25.4% in their forties, 9.7% in their fifties, and 7.9% 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 did spend all summer in hospital one year, and another year after playing on the beach the result of our play (undermining a sand dune then breaking the turf on top – I’m sure there was a good reason for it) featured on the front page of the local paper as an example of coastal erosion…

Ranking result

Q: What tough experiences did you have during summer holidays when you were a child? (Sample size=1,148)

Rank		Score
1	Was busy with club activities so didnt have any free time	100
2	Was at a loose end every day	83.1
3	Got sunburnt even though I applied sun block	67.3
4	Was busy studying so didn’t have any free time	53.2
5	Person I fancied found someone else	43.3
6	None of my friends invited me out to play	38.4
7	Ate too much and got really fat	33.1
8=	Was unwell every day	21.8
8=	Was stung by an insect I’d never seen before	21.8
10	Got dumped just before the holidays and felt miserable all summer	19.7
11	Wanted to get a tan, but just couldn’t brown	16.9
12	All my friends went on travel so I had no-one to play with	16.2
13	The person I fancied became all glitzy	13.7
14	Ate too little and got really thin	10.6
15	Was in hospital all the holiday	8.1
16	Came back from travel and a gulf had opened between me and my group of friends	7.7