世論 What Japan Thinks

Here’s a quickie survey report published and conducted by goo Research. in conjuction with the Mainichi Shimbun, into exercise habits.

Demographics

Over the 25th and 26th of September 2008 1,079 members of the goo Research monitor pool over the age of twenty were randomly selected and completed an internet-based questionnaire. A more detailed demographics breakdown was not given.

Q1SQ1 was just a single answer question, but I’d have to answer all five, including the other category! As for school sports day sports, I’d probably go for the egg-and-spoon race once again.
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Over the first five days at the start of February, MyVoice asked their online monitor group about exercise.

Demographics

13,158 people successfully completed the online questionnaire. 54% of the sample was female, 2% in their teens, 19% in their twenties, 40% in their thirties, 26% in their forties, and 13% in their fifties.

Note that walking in Q1 implies walking for the sake of exercise, not just walking through the station or on the way to work, unless it is deliberately for exercise, although the exact dividing line is unclear and up to the individual to choose. I must admit to being in the couch potato class; indeed recently due to changing the line I commute by, I’ve eliminated a 10 minute walk between home and the station. Plans to join a gym last Autumn were never realised.
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goo Research recently published the results of a survey they carried out into exercise, either taking it or watching other people doing it. Demographics are not clearly expressed, but aproximately 1,000 employed people from their monitor pool completed the survey. About eigth-tenths worked full-time for public or private enterprises as either permanent or contract staff, and nearly nine-tenths were salaried employees. Freelancers and self-employed made up the remaining one and a bit tenths.

Exercise is one of these things I mean to do more of, but… There’s no shortage of clubs, but basic fees start at not much less than 10,000 yen per month or about 2,000 yen per visit, which is a bit much.

As for watching, she who owns the remote has no interest, so neither do I…
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