世論 What Japan Thinks

goo Ranking published a survey with a topic I can identify with, what manners in public places people wish children would obey.

Demographics

The survey was conducted over the 2nd and 3rd of September 2013 and 1,077 people completed a private web-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 24.5% in their teens, 24.8% in their twenties, 25.2% in their thirties, and 25.5% in their forties. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample. This survey was for the women in the sample only.

Here’s a train manners series featuring kids doing adult things to highlight that adults should be responsible and set a good example to kids.

As noted by the poster above, I’ll note that most of the activities here are sometimes seen when kids are accompanied by their parents. However, only number one seems to be strictly enforced by parents, and it does bring out the grumpy old man in me when I see parents sitting in a phone off area yet playing with, or even talking on, their phones around their kids.

Ranking result

Q: What manners in public places do you wish children would obey? (Sample size=1,077)

Rank		Score
1	I wish they’d take their shoes off before standing on bus, train seats	100
2=	I wish they wouldn’t push into queues	97.4
2=	I wish they’d put rubbish into bins or take it home rather than littering	97.4
4	I wish they wouldn’t shout and run around in trains	94.1
5	I wish they wouldn’t put plates back onto the conveyor belt in sushi joints after taking them off	82.3
6	I wish they wouldn’t make a racket in public places	80.7
7	I wish they wouldn’t run around in shops	80.2
8	I wish they wouldn’t eat, drink in places where it is forbidden	76.4
9	I wish they wouldn’t open the doors to other booths in restaurants	68.5
10	I wish they would put their electronic devices into silent mode in public transport	66.4
11	I wish they’d switch off their mobile phones in cinemas	65.4
12	I wish they’d offer their seats in public transport to others when needed	63.7
13	I wish they wouldn’t stick their fingers into the food samples	60.5
14	I wish they wouldn’t ride in shopping carts	58.2
15	I wish they wouldn’t hog the display products (consoles, etc) in toy shops	48.9