Demographics

Between the 13th and 18th of January 2010 500 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 59.8% of the sample were male, 31.2% in their twenties, 32.0% in their thirties, and 36.8% in their forties.

I’m firmly in the matte camp, although I’ve never actually used a glossy… When I bought my monitor they had both a glossy and matte version on offer, and whilst the colours from glossy were very vivid, I’d heard a lot about issues with reflections, and anyway the matte was cheaper…

Oh, and just to mention the iPad for the first time on this blog (although no doubt they’ll be a million and one surveys over the next couple of months), I hear a lot of people imagining how professionals in the field will use one, but it has a glossy screen which along with the LCD makes it a no-go - and that’s also ignoring that it’s not ruggedised, water resistant or even terribly sturdy-looking.

Research results

Q1: Did you know that glossy LCD screens existed for computers? (Sample size=500)

	All	Male N=299	Female N=201
Yes	74.2%	86.0%	56.7%
No	25.8%	14.0%	43.3%

Q2: For about how long per day do you use your home computer? (Sample size=500)

	All	Male N=299	Female N=201
Under 30 minutes (to SQ)	4.0%	4.0%	4.0%
30 minutes to one hour (to SQ)	10.4%	10.0%	10.9%
One to two hours (to SQ)	19.6%	20.4%	18.4%
Two to three hours (to SQ)	21.4%	22.1%	20.4%
Three to four hours (to SQ)	18.0%	21.4%	12.9%
Four to five hours (to SQ)	5.8%	4.3%	8.0%
Five to six hours (to SQ)	3.6%	3.0%	4.5%
Six hours or more (to SQ)	16.2%	13.4%	20.4%
Don’t use it	1.0%	1.3%	0.5%

Q2SQ: Is your home computer monitor glossy or matte? (Sample size=495)

	All	Male N=295	Female N=200
Glossy	22.4%	23.1%	21.5%
Matte	69.9%	70.8%	68.5%
Not LCD (CRT, etc)	7.7%	6.1%	10.0%

Q3A: For your next computer LCD monitor, would you want to buy glossy or matte? (Sample size=500)

	All	Male N=299	Female N=201
Glossy	15.2%	17.7%	11.4%
Perhaps glossy	21.2%	18.7%	24.9%
Perhaps matte	30.4%	27.1%	35.3%
Matte	29.0%	32.8%	23.4%
Won’t buy LCD	4.2%	3.7%	5.0%

Q3B: For your next computer LCD monitor, would you want to buy glossy or matte? (Sample size=495)

	Glossy users N=111	Matte users N=346	Non-LCD users N=38
Glossy	34.2%	8.4%	21.1%
Perhaps glossy	39.6%	16.5%	10.5%
Perhaps matte	17.1%	36.4%	15.8%
Matte	7.2%	37.6%	15.8%
Won’t buy LCD	1.8%	1.2%	36.8%

Demographics

Between the 13th and 17th of January 2010 300 members of the Marsh monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.0% of the sample were female, 2.3% in their teens, 17.7% 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’m mostly satisfied with my setup at home - it’s no speed demon, but it wasn’t bought as one, although it could do with a little bit of extra memory as it gets a bit slow when memory fills up, and the mouse is rather wonky.

Interestingly, in this survey everyone had a home computer, although usually there’s always one or two who do their surveys from the office or an internet cafe - I presume they pre-screened the sample.

Research results

Q1: How satisfied are you with your home computer? (Sample size=300)

Completely satisfied	4.7%
Satisfied to some degree	30.7%
Perhaps satisfied	27.7%
Perhaps dissatisfied (to SQ1)	22.7%
Dissatisfied to some degree (to SQ1)	6.7%
Completely dissatisfied (to SQ1)	7.7%

Q1SQ1: Which aspects are you dissatisfied with? (Sample size=111, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
Computer functions are slow (to SQ2)	86	77.5%
Internet access is slow	65	58.6%
Has glitches	51	45.9%
Old	28	25.2%
Dissatisfied with mouse, keyboard	21	18.9%
Don’t have exclusive use	10	9.0%
Gets in the way	7	6.3%
Poor design	7	6.3%
Difficult to use	7	6.3%
Nothing in particular	0	0.0%

Q1SQ2: Do you plan to buy a replacement computer? (Sample size=86)

Yes	59.3%
No	40.7%

Demographics

Between the 18th and 21st of December 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their teens, 15.3% in their twenties, 27.0% in their thirties, 27.8% in their forties, 11.9% in their fifties, and 9.3% 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.

Ranking result

Q: What personal grooming failures in women takes you aback? (Sample size=528, male)

Rank		Score
1	Dandruff on the shoulders	100
2	Dirty nails	84.5
3	Standing on the heels of shoes	57.9
4	Holes in socks, tights	54.0
5	Dirty inside of shirt collar	52.1
6	Dirty shirt cuffs	46.6
7	Dragged through a hedge backwards hair	34.8
8	Wrinkly shirt, trousers	33.2
9	Dirty shoes	30.5
10	Shirt tails hanging out of trousers, skirt	30.2

Q: What personal grooming failures in men takes you aback? (Sample size=549, female)

Rank		Score
1	Dandruff on the shoulders	100
2	Dirty nails	77.0
3	Dirty inside of shirt collar	61.1
4	Standing on the heels of shoes	58.9
5	Dirty shirt cuffs	55.0
6	Wrinkly shirt, trousers	44.3
7	Holes in socks	40.2
8	Wearing clothes not matching the season	38.9
9	Wearing the wrong size of clothes	38.0
10	Shirt tails hanging out of trousers	33.9

Demographics

Between the 18th and 21st of December 2009 1,077 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their teens, 15.3% in their twenties, 27.0% in their thirties, 27.8% in their forties, 11.9% in their fifties, and 9.3% 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.

Just to explain a couple, a Yankee is basically a juvenile delinquent, a gal is a young girl with dyed blonde hair and far too much makeup, and a gal-man is, according to Google Images, a guy with well, just look at the fine specimens here.

Ranking results

Q: Hearing what secrets of a girl you like would cause you to take a step backwards? (Sample size=528, male)

Rank		Score
1	She only bathes once every few days	100
2	She’s got debts	79.5
3	She’s hiding a past marriage	64.4
4	She’s had cosmetic surgery	57.5
5	She wears the same clothes many times without washing	55.5
6	She’s been two-timing, three-timing and more	49.3
7=	She lies about her age	45.2
7=	Her parents buy her clothes	45.2
9	Her parents tidy her room	41.1
10	She’s got a mother, father complex	37.0
11	She’s unemployed	34.2
12=	She misrepresents her past love life	32.9
12=	She’s got no cash in the bank	32.9
14	She’s an ex-Yankee	32.2
15	She’s a groupie	27.4
16	She’s an ex-gal	26.7
17	She’s got a rather expensive hobby	21.9
18	She’s in touch with the spirit world	16.4
19	She’s got an otaku hobby	14.4
20	She like cos-play (dressing up)	12.3

Q: Hearing what secrets of a guy you like would cause you to take a step backwards? (Sample size=549, female)

Rank		Score
1	His parents buy his clothes	100
2	He only bathes once every few days	98.4
3	He’s got debts	97.3
4	He’s got a mother, father complex	90.9
5	He’s unemployed	87.6
6	He’s hiding a past marriage	79.6
7	His parents tidy his room	75.3
8	He’s got no cash in the bank	60.8
9	He wears the same clothes many times without washing	55.4
10	He’s had cosmetic surgery	54.8
11	He’s been two-timing, three-timing and more	54.3
12	He’s a groupie	47.3
13	He like cos-play (dressing up)	46.2
14	He lies about his age	39.2
15	He misrepresents his past love life	33.3
16	He’s got a rather expensive hobby	31.2
17	He’s got an otaku hobby	27.4
18	He doesn’t have a driving license	26.9
19	He’s an gal-man	26.3
20	He’s an ex-Yankee	23.7

Demographics

On the 12th of January 2010 300 married female members of the iBridge monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 6.0% of the sample were in their twenties, 38.3% in their thirties, 34.3% in their forties, 15.7% in their fifties, and 5.7% in their sixties.

Both our phone bills come out of the family budget. I personally run up 2,600 yen per month on just about the cheapest plan going, wifey 8,000 yen or so depending on how many voice calls she makes.

Without knowing the number of people with school-aged mobile phone owning children, it’s difficult to judge if the 41 people in Q1SQ1 who pay children’s bills is large or small.

Research results

Q1: Do you pay mobile phone bills from the family budget? (Sample size=300)

Yes, pay it all (to SQs)	71.3%
Yes, pay part of it (to SQs)	16.0%
No, don’t pay any of it	9.7%
No, don’t have mobile phones	3.0%

Q1SQ1: Whose mobile phone bills do you pay from the family budget? (Sample size=262, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
Husband	208	79.4%
My own	204	77.9%
Children	41	15.6%
Own parents	4	1.5%
Husband’s parents	2	0.8%
Own brothers, sisters	0	0.0%
Husband’s brothers, sisters	0	0.0%
Grandchildren	0	0.0%
Other	0	0.0%

Q1SQ2: How much per month do you pay in total for mobile phone bills? (Sample size=262)

Under 2,000 yen	1.1%
2,000 to 2,999 yen	4.6%
3,000 to 3,999 yen	5.0%
4,000 to 4,999 yen	8.4%
5,000 to 5,999 yen	8.8%
6,000 to 9,999 yen	25.2%
10,000 to 14,999 yen	23.3%
15,000 to 19,999 yen	11.8%
20,000 to 29,999 yen	9.9%
30,000 yen or more	1.9%

Demographics

Between the 4th and 7th of January 2010 495 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 55.4% of the sample were male, 33.5% in their twenties, 31.9% in their thirties, and 34.5% in their forties.

16.1% of the men unemployed seems a very high percentage, and with only 4% between the figures for those in their twenties versus those in their thirties and forties, one cannot really say it is due to student numbers. I’d love to see the age figures broken down by sex just to see if there’s a trend.

I suppose I should count What Japan Thinks as my second job, and I wish I could say that I’m using the earnings to save for travel, but sadly it barely makes enough to cover my living expenses gap…

Research results

Q1: Are you currently employed? (Sample size=495)

	All	Male N=274	Female N=221
Yes (to SQs)	78.2%	83.9%	71.0%
No	21.8%	16.1%	29.0%

Q1SQ1: How satisfied are you with your salary in your main job? (Sample size=387)

	All	Male N=230	Female N=157
Completely satisfied	3.6%	3.9%	3.2%
Perhaps satisfied	30.7%	33.5%	26.8%
Perhaps dissatisfied	41.1%	37.8%	45.9%
Completely dissatisfied	24.5%	24.8%	24.2%

Q1SQ2: Do you have second job? (Sample size=387)

	All	Male N=230	Female N=157
Yes, currently (to SQ3)	16.5%	20.4%	10.8%
Used to have (to SQ4)	17.3%	15.2%	20.4%
No, never (to SQ4)	66.1%	64.3%	68.8%

Q1SQ3: To what use do you put the money from your second job? (Sample size=64, multiple answer)

	All	Male N=47	Female N=17
Building savings, investments	57.8%	63.8%	41.2%
Living expenses	43.8%	38.3%	58.8%
Travel, hobby	32.8%	38.3%	17.6%
Dates, socialising	9.4%	10.6%	5.9%
Repay loan	7.8%	4.3%	17.6%
Education expenses	1.6%	2.1%	0.0%
Other	3.1%	4.3%	0.0%

Q1SQ4: Would you like to try a second job? (Sample size=323)

	All	Male N=183	Female N=140
Yes (to SQ5)	41.8%	40.4%	43.6%
No	58.2%	59.6%	56.4%

Not surprisingly, the more dissatisfied people were with their salary, the more likely they were to want a second job.

Q1SQ5: To what use would you want to put the money from a second job? (Sample size=135, multiple answer)

	All	Male N=74	Female N=61
Living expenses	65.2%	63.5%	67.2%
Travel, hobby	60.0%	56.8%	63.9%
Building savings, investments	53.3%	45.9%	62.3%
Dates, socialising	20.0%	20.3%	19.7%
Repay loan	17.0%	24.3%	8.2%
Education expenses	11.9%	17.6%	4.9%
Other	2.2%	4.1%	0.0%

Demographics

Between the 22nd of December 2009 and 4th of January 2010 561 members of the CLUB BBQ free email forwarding service completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 55.4% of the sample were male, 32.6% in their twenties, 32.3% in their thirties, and 35.1% in their forties.

Here’s a very interesting background article on what exactly Juki Net is and what concerns people have regarding it.

Research results

Q1: Starting with Tokyo in February 2010, Seven Eleven are rolling out nationwide machines that given a Juki Net card will print out residence certificates, etc between 6:30 am and 11:00 pm, seven days a week. Would it be useful to have such a service at a convenience store near you? (Sample size=561)

	All	Male N=311	Female N=250
Very useful	37.8%	39.2%	36.0%
Somewhat useful	43.1%	42.8%	43.6%
Not particularly useful	19.1%	18.0%	20.4%

Q2: If such a service was available at a convenience store near you, would you want to use it? (Sample size=561)

	All	Male N=311	Female N=250
Definitely	31.4%	36.7%	24.8%
Would try it once	45.8%	42.1%	50.4%
Don’t want to	22.8%	21.2%	24.8%

Q3: Do you have a Juki Net card? (Sample size=561)

	All	Male N=311	Female N=250
Yes	26.7%	31.5%	20.8%
No (to SQ)	73.3%	68.5%	79.2%

Q3SQ: If a public document issuing service became available at a convenience store near you, would you want to get a Juki Net card? (Sample size=411)

	All	Male N=213	Female N=198
Definitely	8.0%	9.4%	6.6%
If I had the opportunity	55.5%	57.7%	53.0%
Don’t want to	36.5%	32.9%	40.4%

Q4: Regarding a public document issuing service at convenience stores, do you feel uneasy about passing over personal information at a convenience store? (Sample size=561)

	All	Male N=311	Female N=250
Very uneasy	29.8%	25.1%	35.6%
Somewhat uneasy	36.5%	33.8%	40.0%
Not really uneasy	29.1%	34.1%	22.8%
Not uneasy at all	4.6%	7.1%	1.6%

Recently, the Cabinet Office Japan took a detailed look at culture.

Demographics

Between the 11th and 15th of November 2009 3,000 people over the aged of twenty selected at random from resident lists all over the country were approached for interview. 1,853 people, or 61.8% were available and agreed to take part in face-to-face interviews. 52.6% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their twenties, 14.8% in their thirties, 17.6% in their forties, 16.6% in their fifties, 24.0% in their sixties, and 18.2% aged seventy or older.

Q14 is interesting in that traditional arts are what people think are most praised (not praiseworthy) worldwide. If traditional arts included bushido and ninjas, perhaps, but for the ones listed I hear they are worth seeing just once. Manga and anime are the most influential, I think, although perhaps not praised outside of a narrow demographic, and it is my personal mission to try to persuade as many of you that Takarazuka theatre should be experienced and hailed worldwide as a unique experience.

Research results

Q9: Do you have any children under the age of twenty? (Sample size=1,853)

Yes (to SQ)	28.4%
No	71.6%

Q9SQ: What kinds of experiences have they had in culture, arts? (Sample size=527, multiple answer)

Viewing a performance, etc, at school	59.0%
Studying music, dance, flower arranging, tea ceremony, calligraphy, etc	45.4%
Viewing, study tour at a local hall, theatre, museum, art gallery, other cultural facility	44.6%
Participating in a local performance, traditional festival	41.4%
Participating in drama at school	39.8%
Study tour of historical buildings, remains, etc	37.6%
Participating in a local cultural event such as music festival, drama festival, etc	36.6%
Other	0.0%
Nothing in particular	37.6%
Don’t know	0.4%

Q10: Do you think it is important for children to experience culture, arts? (Sample size=1,853)

Yes (to SQ)	93.1%
No	2.1%
Don’t know	4.9%

Q10SQ: What is important in order that children may experience culture, arts? (Sample size=1,725, multiple answer)

Sufficient opportunities to watch performances at school	58.3%
Sufficient opportunities to visit and view performances and exhibitions at cultural facilities such as halls, theatres, art galleries, museums	49.5%
Offer more opportunities to participate in traditional cultural local festivals, etc	46.0%
Hold local cultural events such as music festivals, drama festivals, etc to give them the opportunity to get familiar with culture and the arts	41.0%
Sufficient opportunities for study tours of historical buildings, remains, etc	39.9%
Sufficient opportunities to create performances at school	38.1%
Sufficient opportunities to study music, dance, flower arranging, tea ceremony, calligraphy, etc	30.3%
Other	0.7%
Nothing in particular	1.4%
Don’t know	0.8%

Q11: What effects would you expect to see from children experiencing culture and the arts? (Sample size=1,853, multiple answer)

Understanding of Japanese culture, instilling a love of their country, region	60.2%
Development of their aesthetic sense	51.9%
Gain an understanding of other people’s feelings	38.6%
Improvement of their communication ability	37.9%
Raising of their interest in people from other countries and cultures	35.7%
Improvement of their self-confidence in school activities	20.8%
Improvement of how they resolve problems they face	18.4%
Other	0.5%
No particular expectations	4.4%
Don’t know	3.0%

Q12: Other than through buying tickets, have you made any financial contributions towards culture or the arts? (Sample size=1,853)

Yes	9.1%
No	90.9%

Q13: What do you think is needed in order to create an environment where people make financial contributions towards the arts? (Sample size=1,853, multiple answer)

Clear accounting of use of contributed funds	42.3%
Active promotion of information on bodies to contribute to	30.5%
The ability to specify which areas, details of how contributions are to be used	24.8%
Tax breaks for contributions	21.7%
Sufficient special privileges offered by bodies to contribute to	15.6%
Internet-based contributions, other easy contributing methods	15.0%
Listing of contributors, sufficient other ways of expressing thanks to contributors	9.6%
Other	1.7%
Don’t know	19.1%

Additional materials explained the classifications in Q14 to the respondents: music included opera, orchestra, chamber music, chorus, brass band, jazz, etc; fine arts included painting, woodcuts, scuplture, industrial arts, pottery, calligraphy, photography, etc; media arts included manga comics, animation, computer art, video art, cinema, etc; traditional arts included gagaku (court music), noh, bunraku, kabuki, etc; literature includes novels, poetry, tanka, haiku, etc; lifestyle arts included tea ceremony, flower arranging, calligraphy, the game of go, etc; theatre included modern theatre, puppetry, musicals, etc; dance included Japanese dance, ballet, modern dance, contemporary dance, etc; entertainment included koudan (storytelling), rakugo (comic storytelling), roukyoku (recitation of stories accompanied by samisen), manzai (stand-up comedy), etc.

Q14: What Japanese culture and arts do you think are revered worldwide? (Sample size=1,853, multiple answer)

Traditional arts	64.7%
Historical buildings, remains	56.4%
Food culture	31.5%
Theatre, dance, performance	28.8%
Media arts	25.3%
Lifestyle arts	25.3%
Fine arts	24.7%
Literature	18.0%
Music (excluding J-Pop)	13.5%
J-Pop	6.2%
Other	0.2%
None in particular	2.6%
Don’t know	2.5%

Q15: In your daily life, how important do you think it is to experience, take part in culture and the arts? (Sample size=1,853)

Very important	28.6%
Important to a degree	59.8%
Not very important	6.3%
Not important at all	0.8%
Don’t know	4.4%

Q16: By contributing financially, with manpower, and otherwise supporting culture and the arts, people will feel closer to culture and the arts, inspiring their creativeness and emotions, thus contributing towards the liveliness of society and stimulating the economy. What do you think about that statement? (Sample size=1,853)

Agree	33.9%
Perhaps agree	44.8%
Perhaps disagree	9.2%
Disagree	3.9%
Don’t know	8.1%

Q17: In order to develop culture and the arts in the future, what in particular do you think the government should put effort towards? (Sample size=1,853, multiple answer)

Provide children with sufficient experiences of culture and the arts	48.6%
Develop human resources who can support culture and the arts	44.2%
Support continued management of cultural assets	41.9%
Support world-class performing and traditional arts	29.7%
Promote Japanese culture overseas, cultural exchanges	27.1%
Provide national-level cultural facilities such as museums and art galleries	25.8%
Hold cultural events such as music, theatre, film festivals	24.7%
Tax breaks for contributions towards cultural development	14.9%
Other	1.1%
Nothing in particular	4.7%
Don’t know	5.6%

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Recently, the Cabinet Office Japan took a detailed look at culture.

Demographics

Between the 11th and 15th of November 2009 3,000 people over the aged of twenty selected at random from resident lists all over the country were approached for interview. 1,853 people, or 61.8% were available and agreed to take part in face-to-face interviews. 52.6% of the sample were female, 8.7% in their twenties, 14.8% in their thirties, 17.6% in their forties, 16.6% in their fifties, 24.0% in their sixties, and 18.2% aged seventy or older.

My two main cultural experiences are movies and theatre, especially musicals. I really should write reviews of what I see and get them published somewhere! I’ve been to one art gallery in the last year, which was in a rebuilt castle and filled with slightly creepy Christian art…

Research results

Additional materials explained the classifications in Q1 to the respondents: music included opera, orchestra, chamber music, chorus, brass band, jazz, popular music, etc; fine arts included painting, woodcuts, scuplture, industrial arts, pottery, calligraphy, photography, etc; theatre included modern theatre, puppetry, musicals, etc; dance included Japanese dance, ballet, modern dance, contemporary dance, etc; cinema was cinema; media arts included manga comics, animation, computer art, video art, etc; traditional arts included gagaku (court music), noh, bunraku, kabuki, etc; entertainment included koudan (storytelling), rakugo (comic storytelling), roukyoku (recitation of stories accompanied by samisen), manzai (stand-up comedy), etc.

Q1: In the last year, which of the following culture-related activites have you attended a venue in order to experience in person? (Sample size=1,853, multiple answer)

Cinema (excluding animation)	37.2%
Music	24.2%
Fine art	24.2%
Historical building, remains	22.6%
Theatre	10.5%
Traditional arts	5.3%
Entertainment	4.5%
Dance	4.3%
Media art (excluding cinema)	2.2%
Other	0.2%
None of the above	36.9%
Don’t know	0.3%

Q2: In the last year, which of the following culture-related activites have you watched or listened to on television, video, CD, DVD, internet, etc? (Sample size=1,853, multiple answer)

Cinema (excluding animation)	57.3%
Music	55.6%
Historical building, remains	27.5%
Entertainment	23.2%
Fine art	20.8%
Theatre	13.5%
Traditional arts	12.4%
Media art (excluding cinema)	10.3%
Dance	7.3%
Other	0.2%
None of the above	13.2%
Don’t know	0.3%

Q3: In the last year, how many times have you been to a museum or art gallery? (Sample size=1,853)

Once or twice	26.8%
Three to five times	11.5%
Six or more times	3.9%
No times at all	57.5%
Don’t know	0.3%

Q4: What do you think should be done in order to make it easier to go to museums and art galleries? (Sample size=1,853, multiple answer)

Build, increase the number of museums and art galleries close to where I live	37.0%
Cheaper entrance fees	35.7%
Offer easy to understand information about exhibitions	24.7%
Hold exhibitions of nationally, internationally famous works, artists	18.9%
Longer opening hours	13.9%
Hold exhibitions of artists related to the locality	11.7%
Reduce crowding	11.5%
Hold explanatory lectures, workshops on famous works, etc, to give people sufficient chances to become familiar with them	8.9%
Make venues barrier free (accessible)	5.1%
Other	5.7%
Nothing in particular	18.5%
Don’t know	1.2%

Q5: In the last year, excluding just viewing, have you participated in, created works, supported cultural events as a volunteer, etc? Choose all of the following which you have done. (Sample size=1,853, multiple answer)

Participated in local entertainment, festival, etc	10.1%
Created, participated in writing, music, fine arts, theatre, dance, cinema, etc	7.4%
Studied music, dance, flower arranging, tea ceremony, calligraphy, etc	7.3%
Supported children’s culture and art experiences events	4.2%
Supported culture facilities (halls, theatres, museums, art galleries, etc)	2.1%
Supported the holding of cultural events (music festival, drama festival, cinema festival, etc)	1.9%
Supported the preservation, development of historical buildings, remains	0.9%
Other	0.5%
Nothing in particular	76.1%
Don’t know	0.2%

Q6: How satisfied are you with the cultural environment in the area in which you live? For instance, opportunities for viewing, creating, or participating, preservation of cultural resources, traditional streets, etc. (Sample size=1,853)

Satisfied	14.1%
Somewhat satisfied	38.0%
Somewhat dissatisfied	22.9%
Dissatisfied	12.4%
Don’t know	12.6%

Q7: In order for you to be more satisfied with the cultural environment in the area in which you live, what do you think is needed? (Sample size=1,853, multiple answer)

Sufficient opportunites for children to get familiar with culture and arts	38.9%
Preservation, continuation of local entertainment, festivals, etc	28.6%
Sufficient halls, theatres, museums, art galleries, other cultural facilities	28.3%
Promote a built environment that keeps historical buildings, remains alive	23.8%
Sufficient cultural events such as performances, festivals	20.0%
Support for activities of artists, cultural groups, etc	10.7%
Proactive use of local artists at cultural facilities, cultural events	9.6%
Other	1.8%
Nothing in particular	14.8%
Don’t know	4.4%

Q8: If there was a sufficient cultural environment in the area in which you live, what effects would you expect to see? (Sample size=1,853, multiple answer)

The raising of spiritually rich children	50.2%
Residents discovering the joy of life	38.4%
Blossoming of residents participation in society, interaction	37.8%
Fostering a love of the area	32.2%
Improvement in the area’s image	28.6%
Heightening of residents creativity leading to an enlivening of the local society, economy	24.7%
Gathering of more talent in the area	18.1%
Increase in visitors from other areas, overseas	9.6%
Other	0.3%
No particular expectations	10.1%
Don’t know	2.3%

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Demographics

On the 14th of December 2009 300 members of the iBridge Research Plus monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.3% of the sample were male, 13.0% in their twenties, 26.7% in their thirties, 35.3% in their forties, 17.0% in their fifties, and 8.0% in their sixties.

Despite 91.3% being on some form of broadband at home, nearly half reported a walking-speed connection. They may have low-end computers, but one cannot help wondering if 42% using Windows Explorer has anything to do with it? On my home PC, Opera flies, but my wife uses Internet Explorer 8 and it is ridiculously slow to create a new page (I’d vote tortoise rather than walking…), a combination of her having too many bookmarks and, I suspect, Rakuten toolbar.

Research results

Of the sample, 295 people, or 98.3%, had internet connections at home, and 274 people, or 91.3% of the whole sample or 92.9% of the people with internet connections, used ADSL, CATV (cable) or FTTH (Fibre To The Home).

Q1: When do you usually use the interent at home? (Sample size=295, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
Weekday early mornings	69	23.4%
Weekday mid-mornings	86	29.2%
Weekday afternoons	111	37.6%
Weekday evenings	231	78.3%
Weekday nights	89	30.2%
Weekend early mornings	47	15.9%
Weekend mid-mornings	120	40.7%
Weekend afternoons	143	48.5%
Weekend evenings	164	55.6%
Weekend nights	79	26.8%
Almost never, never use	4	1.4%

Q2: When do you feel the internet is slow? (Sample size=295, multiple answer)

	Votes	Percentage
Weekday early mornings	14	4.7%
Weekday mid-mornings	19	6.4%
Weekday afternoons	22	7.5%
Weekday evenings	82	27.8%
Weekday nights	24	8.1%
Weekend early mornings	6	2.0%
Weekend mid-mornings	19	6.4%
Weekend afternoons	46	15.6%
Weekend evenings	79	26.8%
Weekend nights	28	9.5%
Don’t know	117	39.7%

Q3: At its slowest, what speed is your home connection? (Sample size=295)

Walking pace	43.6%
Bicycle	24.1%
Car	5.8%
Bullet train	2.7%
Airplane	0.7%
Supersonic	0.7%
Light speed	1.0%
Don’t know	21.3%