It’s quite frustrating, but at my workplace we have access to masses of surveys of our company’s products and that of our competitors too. Quite fascinating figures are contained within, but sadly company confidentiality prevents me from translating them for Read more…
The last poll was pretty useless, so here’s a better one from Nikkei Net. This one has a reader’s panel from which participants are randomly selected, so still not as good as we can get, and will probably over-represent the ABC1 professional class.
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Since it’s election time here in Japan, let’s look at a survey from election.co.jp. Note that this is a self-selecting survey of web users, so please take all numbers with a very large pinch of salt! Sample size: 4,518. Male Read more…
The original Japanese text is here. The survey was carried out in October 2003 with a response of 1,417 people from the 2,000 parcipitants chosen. Sorry, but some of the religious terms are not too familiar to me, so the Read more…
Adapted from a story appearing in the Nikkei. According to a research team from the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry led by Professor Hiroshi Yamato from the Institute of Industrial Ecological Sciences at the University of Occupational and Environmental Health Read more…
世論 (seron) is the Japanese word for public opinion. 世論調査 (seron chousa) is public opinion poll. “Seron” can also be spelt “yoron” in certain circumstances that I’m not absolutely clear on, but for the purposes of this web site “seron” Read more…
