Bookkeeping and colour coordinator top mail-order qualifications
Come the New Year, without fail U-Can flood the airwaves and newspapers with adverts for mail-order qualifications, so this ranking survey from goo Ranking into what correspondence course qualifications would people like to earn from the comfort of their own home
Demographics
Over the 20th and 21st of December 2010 1,128 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 65.4% of the sample were female, 11.9% in their teens, 17.2% in their twenties, 30.2% in their thirties, 23.2% in their forties, 10.0% in their fifties, and 7.4% 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.
Looking at the rest of the list, colour coordinator sticks out like a sore thumb as a rather mickey mouse qualification. Number 12, weather forecaster, is a curious facet of Japan – gaining the qualification is rather difficult, but many, many people try for it just for the sake of having it, it seems.
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