Over the 6th and 7th of March 2013 1,083 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 56.7% of the sample were female, 11.6% in their teens, 15.0% in their twenties, 24.9% in their thirties, 24.7% in their forties, 12.7% in their fifties, and 11.1% 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 wife does most of the things in Q1, and I don’t understand them at all either, so I’m glad to see it’s not just a cultural gap that I’m experiencing! Read the rest of this entry »
136,639 members of the Research Panel monitor group answered (it must have been a hot question!), and the results were (multiple answer allowed) 47.8% and 47.7% answered coffee and tea respectively, 30.7% chose alcohol (lower than I would have thought), and 13.4% tobacco. Furthermore, 5.2% said some other luxury (chocolate seemed a popular answer!) and 8.5% would not be put out by any luxury being banned.
Between the 28th and 31st of January 2013 2,350 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. The sample was exactly 50:50 male and female, and similarly the age groups were evenly split with 20.0% in each of the age bands from twenties to the over-sixties.
I’d like to buy more Fairtrade, but there is a definite lack of shops here selling it. The obvious product is coffee, but although I don’t drink it at home, if there is a choice when I go to a coffee shop I will take the Fairtrade one, although again it is very rare to find such a cafe. Read the rest of this entry »
If you’ve been following the Japanese news you may have heard that a Japanese court ordered Google to remove a libellous auto-complete, a ruling that it may or may not follow. So, to see what the average member of their monitor group thought of the ruling, Research Panel conducted a quick poll. 17,905 people responded to the question “In the light of the recent defamation case, do you think Google should withdraw their auto-complete feature?” 25.4% thought Google should, 22.3% thought they shouldn’t, and perhaps reflecting the large amount of Yahoo! search users, 52.2% didn’t know about Google’s auto-complete.
As seen above, I think I’ll sue Google for associating my site with MLP, or My Little Pony…
Here’s a curious little quicky poll taken by Research Panel. It is tagged as their Day Research, where they get as many members of the monitor panel to vote on a question of the day for a couple of points. They asked their panel which of the following ways of writing out fifty million yen was easiest to understand. Note that in Japanese, the equivalent of our thousand is ten thousand, so instead of in English one thousand, one million, one billion, etc, Japanese goes ten thousand, hundred million, one trillion, etc. So, with that in mind, 3 ten thousands and 2549 people voted this way on the easiest-to-understand form.
Top by a long way was 84.9% choosing 5千万円, 5-thousand-ten thousand yen. Next, 10.8% chose the longhand 50,000,000 yen, the easiest form for me. 2.6% said 50,000千円, 5,000-ten thousand yen, then 1.8% 50百万円, 50-hundred-ten thousand yen.
goo Research recently conducted their seventh regular survey into electronic books, which was reported on by japan.internet.com.
Demographics
Over the 25th and 26th of March 2013 1,089 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.9% of the sample were male, 13.4% in their teens, 15.9% in their twenties, 21.6% in their thirties, 17.4% in their forties, 19.4% in their fifties, and 12.4% aged sixty or older. Furthermore, the sixth regular survey was conducted between the 10th and 13th of December 2012 and had 1,076 participants with roughly similar demographics.
For my first example of a quick chatty survey report, I found that Yahoo! Japan asked if restrictions on using smartphones while walking are needed in a poll published on their news pages, and from the 37,252 people who replied at the time of writing, 77% said that such a restriction was necessary.
Given that now just about all of the underground system in Tokyo, Osaka and elsewhere is now fully connected, and the sheer number of people commuting, and that smartphones, unlike traditional phones with physical keys, need much more attention to use, the scope for bumping into others will only increase.
This topic was apparently kicked off by a columnist who might be of some repute, Takashi Odajima, who said recently that walking more than 10 paces whilst looking at the screen should draw a fine of 2,000 yen.
Over the 6th and 7th of February 2013 1,122 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 60.1% of the sample were female, 10.2% in their teens, 16.6% in their twenties, 26.5% in their thirties, 25.0% in their forties, 11.1% in their fifties, and 10.6% 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.
Let’s have Hello Kitty again!
Note that for number 3 especially, to find out what the F-keys do they just need to press the help key… For myself, I only know what the unshifted F1, F5 and F10 do; I’m not aware of the Microsoft-recommended behaviour of the rest. Read the rest of this entry »
Over the 28th of February and 1st of March 2013 1,019 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 100.0% of the sample were female, 0.0% in their teens, 34.0% in their twenties, 33.3% in their thirties, 32.8% in their forties, 0.0% in their fifties, and 0.0% 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. This question was for the women only.
Here’s an interesting fact: in Japanese catalogues, the underwear models are almost exclusively white, western women. The reason is that if they are fellow Japanese, the women end up paying more attention to the model than the underwear.
Most of the high street underwear shops in Japan seem to feature designs that would be fitting for only either (a) a prostitute, or (b) a 14 year old girl. Read the rest of this entry »
When it comes to the start of the financial year and the annual intake of fresh graduates, around town can be seen many a fresh-faced youth in a “freshers suit”, as they are called in Japan. Thus, this recent report by japan.internet.com regarding a survey from goo Research into purchasing suits decided to focus on the fresher suit.
Demographics
Between the 12th and 14th of March 2013 1,083 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.7% of the sample were male, 13.7% in their teens, 15.5% in their twenties, 21.6% in their thirties, 17.2% in their forties, 14.8% in their fifties, and 17.3% aged sixty or older.
Rather than a pie chart today, here’s two television advertisements for a suits store. Which do you prefer?
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