When Japanese think ?Thanks Mum!?

By Ken Y-N ( May 12, 2013 at 18:49) ? Filed under Polls, Rankings

Since it?s Mother?s Day here in Japan at least, I present a timely survey from goo Ranking into when people think ?Thanks Mum!?.

Demographics

Over the 4th and 5th of April 2013 1,101 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.6% of the sample were male, 23.3% in their teens, 25.2% in their twenties, 25.5% in their thirties, and 26.1% in their forties; there was no-one older than 49 in this sample. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

Above is a Mothers Day gift catalogue from a convenience store in Japan, themed around Rilakkuma.

My mother doesn?t believe in Mother?s Day, thinking it just a cynical excuse by card and chocolate makers to sell us more stuff.

Ranking result

Q: At that times do you think ?Thanks Mum!?? (Sample size=1,101)

Rank	?	Score
1	When I came home late at night and she has a hot meal ready for me	100
2	When she looked after me when I?m sick	96.1
3	When I lived alone and realised how hard cooking for oneself was	95.7
4	When I visit the family home and she makes my favourite dishes	94.8
5	When she sent me food parcels when I lived alone	80.7
6	When I become a parent myself	71.8
7	When I realised she secretly saved money for me	65.6
8	When I got married	65.2
9	When she gets in touch just to casually ask how I am	63.6
10	When I lived alone and realised how hard cleaning was	63.3
11	When she comforted me when I was down	58.4
12	When she baby-sitted for my own children	56.4
13	When she denied herself something to buy things for me	50.5
14	When she was the only one to support me when everyone else was opposed	46.2
15	When she silently listened to all my moaning	42.0
16	When she stayed up waiting for me to come back late at night	39.3
17	When I was coming of age	35.1
18	When I heard a song containing words to a mother	25.9
19	When others praised my deportment, manners	24.6
20	When she never caught a cold all year	23.3

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