A recent survey by Marsh Inc, reported on by japan.internet.com, into mobile phone alarms found mobiles preferred by over twice as many over traditional alarm clocks.
Demographics
Between the 12th and 16th of May 2010 300 members of the Marsh online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. The sample was 50:50 males and female, 0.7% in their teens, 19.3% in their twenties, 20.0 in their thirties, 20.0% in their forties, 20.0% in their fifties, and 20.0% agred sixty or older.
Sigh, I cannot remember the last time I woke up naturally as five days a week I have to face this:
It’s a while since we’ve visited the toilet with iShare, so I was curious to see this latest investigation by them into the gents.
Demographics
Between the 20th and 23rd of April 2010 529 male members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 28.5% of the sample were in their twenties, 32.7% in their thirties, and 38.8% in their forties.
Although I’m well house-trained, I always stand in public toilets. I steer clear of Japanese-style trenches, though, as I’ve been scarred by the one time I had to use them when I had a bit of the runs, and I managed to get poo on my trousers…
Note that apparently at schools, entering a cubicle will often get you seriously teased (if television programs are to be believed), causing problems with constipation in schoolkids, and perhaps both the teasing and the constipation continue to be problems in later life?
A recent survey from the Nippon Research Center looked at tourism to Japan. It was part of an omnibus survey, with another six topics covered, but none of the others directly related to Japan.
Demographics
The exact date of the survey was not reported, but 5,000 people were interviewed by both face-to-face and internet-based questionnaires. There were exactly 50:50 male and female, 28.0% between 15 and 29, 28.0% in their thirties, 28.0% in their forties, and 16.0% in their fifties. There were 370 people selected from each of the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, and Shenyang, and 210 people from each of 15 other cities.
I’m surprised by Mount Fuji being so high in the list, but perhaps it is the only place most people can recall, just as everyone would say “The Great Wall” about China. It’s also a surprise to see both Osaka and Nagoya outdoing Tokyo, although if you add up all the areas of Tokyo… Read the rest of this entry »
Between the 2nd and 4th of April 2010 516 married female members of the Macromill monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 25.0% of the sample were in their twenties, 25.0% in their thirties, 25.0% in their forties, and 25.0% aged fifty or older.
My wife would like me to cook occasionally, perhaps once a month, but due to a combination of my only decent dish being a flan or quiche, we neve quite having the right ingredients in, and my general slow speed in the kitchen, I haven’t actually cooked for years! However, I always help in the kitchen, from making the tea to tidying up and washing the dishes. Read the rest of this entry »
Between the 2nd and 4th of April 2010 516 married female members of the Macromill monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 25.0% of the sample were in their twenties, 25.0% in their thirties, 25.0% in their forties, and 25.0% aged fifty or older.
You’ll note in the above results that there isn’t a separate entry for the wife working and a househusband. Whether there were no such couples, they were filtered out, or just forgotton about, I do not know.
My wife cooks about five or six days a week – at the weekends we’ll have one evening meal out, and during the week there’s occasionally times when she goes to the cinema, etc, and we meet somewhere to eat out. At home we almost always eat together – she’ll eat before me if I’m going to be later than about 7:30, but fortunately that rarely happens. Read the rest of this entry »
Here’s an interesting look by goo Ranking at why people are determined to successfully diet, with separate results for both men and women.
Demographics
Between the 23rd and 25th of March 2010 1,128 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.5% of the sample were female, 15.1% in their teens, 16.9% in their twenties, 28.8% in their thirties, 21.1% in their forties, 9.4% in their fifties, and 8.7% 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.
My reason for losing weight is that we both need to lose weight and my wife has said she will if I do. I’m surprised that that reason didn’t come up in the survey. I also need to lose weight as I’ve fallen into the metabo bracket due purely to me not breathing in enough when they measured my waist! I was less than a centimetre over the limit, honest! Read the rest of this entry »
Here’s a short but curiously interesting survey from iShare, looking at artistic talent, in particular being able to perform such a talent in front of others.
Demographics
Between the 2nd and 7th of April 2010 497 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 57.9% of the sample were male, 32.2% in their twenties, 32.2% in their thirties, and 35.6% in their forties.
I have no artistic talents, and am quite envious of those who have them. I’d like to learn to sing, and the wife keeps semi-suggesting it, but I’m totally and utterly tone deaf! Read the rest of this entry »
Between the 25th and 30th of March 2010 499 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 54.9% of the sample were male, 30.5% in their twenties, 31.9% in their thirties, and 37.7% in their forties.
I never go sockless at home; wearing slippers with no socks just doesn’t feel right, and barefoot is not really an option on wood veneer flooring. Anyway, wifey would probably accuse me of spreading athlete’s foot germs around the house, as we’ve watched television programs (sponsored by the makers of OTC creams for said disease, no doubt) about the hidden dangers of second-hand germs spread through bare feet. I do change my socks as soon as I get home, however.
Some of the reasons given for socks in the summer were worried about dust, people sufferring from cold feet, and feeling relaxed with socks; conversely the sockless people worried about sweatiness, heat in general, and were just bothered by their socks. In the winter, reasons for socklessness included feeling more relaxed with unconstrained feet, just being in the habit of it, and just liking being barefoot. Read the rest of this entry »
A recent survey (well, a recently-published one) looked at people’s habits regarding eating out alone.
Demographics
Betwen the 16th of September and the 1st of October 2009 (they are slow to report some times!) 9.409 members of the DIMSDRIVE monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.8% of the sample were male, 1.1% in their teens, 10.9% in their twenties, 31.9% in their thirties, 31.7% in their forties, 16.3% in their fifties, and 8.1% aged sixty or older.
I would have preferred to have seen people who regularly go out for lunch at work alone for a simple meal eliminated from the survey and a clearer distinction made between a cup of tea and a full meal, but even without that, we can see some interesting trends.
For myself, Mister Donut and Subway are occasionally used for a snack or meal – Mister Donut‘s free refills in particular make the place very condusive to sitting there for hours translatings surveys, although my private life doesn’t often afford me the time. Going upmarket, I can go into Dear Soup except on busy days, as the tables are a bit close together and sitting beside a slurper is an ever-present danger. Nearby my usual Dear Soup is a slightly upmarket but still cheap Italian (Portofina) where the staff know my face, so that’s very easy to enter. Oddly enough, the last time I went there alone another solitary foreigner came and queued up behind me. Read the rest of this entry »
A recent survey from Marsh Inc, reported on by japan.internet.com, took an interesting look at books, and in particular how the internet has changed people’s habits.
Demographics
Between the 31st of March and the 2nd of April 2010 300 members of the Marsh monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. The sample was 50:50 male and feamle, 1.0% in their teens, 19.0 in their twenties, 20.0% in their thirties, 20.0% in their forties, 20.0% in their fifties, and 20.0% aged sixty or older.
I probably read slightly more in books than on-screen, especially if printed-out technical documentation and papers are taken into consideration. Since starting using the internet, however, spare time is much more likely to be filled with surfing than with reading, and now with a netbook, it will get stuffed into a rucksack with much more frequency than a book. Read the rest of this entry »
A recent survey by Marsh Inc, reported on by japan.internet.com, into mobile phone alarms found mobiles preferred by over twice as many over traditional alarm clocks.
It’s a while since we’ve visited the toilet with iShare, so I was curious to see this latest investigation by them into 
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A recent very detailed survey from Macromill Research Inc looked at the matter of 
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A recent survey (well, a recently-published one) looked at people’s habits regarding 
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