Survey Summary (Domestic)

I would like to appreciate everyone who coopertaed with this survey about video games and children. I received the answers from 16 people which is not quite as much as my aiming number, but anyway the data collected from this survey was really beneficial for my project.

All the 16 people were under the age of 31 and the teenagers were accounting for 75% of the survey. Thankfully, the proportion of men and women were almost half and half which made me easier to search about video games from both aspects.

Now, let me move on to the specific facts I collected from the survey. To start with, I would like to introduce the data on which I thought was quite natural. Firstly, I could find out that many people held three or more video game machines which are specialized only on video games and there were less people who owned one or two game machines. I thought this was a natural number esecially for those who have brothers or sisters. However, contray to this number, I discovered that most of the people do not spend money on video games in a year and instead play free games.  Secondly almost all the people considered that children spending too much time on video games have bad effects on them like bad social skills and they also added that they would let their children play more outside rather than staying inside.

Next, I would like to introduce some surprising figures I gained from this research. Before carrying out this survey, I have been thinking that age restrictions regarding video games are important to save children from unsuitable contents. Although, more people agreed with my opinion, more than 30% of people said it is not that important to follow the age restrictions. Furthermore, the number that indicated more people do not care about their eyes while playing video games was really unexpected since I was sure everyone is familiar with the truth that playing video games have negative effects on eyes. Finally, among big numbers of video game companies existing in the world, more than 90% of people said they are familiar with "Nintendo" the most when asked about the best video game company.

To sum up the survey, I became aware that there are no rules about video games in schools or houses and some people even play video games for 4 hours or more per day. I am not saying that we should completely stop children from playing video games, but we need to limit the children from playing them to hinder negative effects.

Again thank you for the cooperation! Cheers!

Survey Summary (international)

 At first, we would like to express our gratitude to all respondents of our resarch. All the answers were invaluable and they really help us make plans of our NGO's activities.
(One thing I have ti apologize is that I could collect answers only from Japanase respondents,so I can't call it "international" survey. However, the questions were different from "domestic" resarch, so this survey is also effective.)

 The most interesting fact we found is that there is the notable paradox; about 80% people think playing video games is somehow bad for children's health, but most familly of the respondents has no rule or restrictrion about video games.
 The reason of this may be that even teenagers basically think they want their children to do what they want. In fact, about 90% of the respondents said "Yes" for the question "Would you allow your children to play video games?"  One of them wrote "I don't want to take away their enjoyment. " as the reason.

 We realized that parents are worry about bad effects caused by video games although they are afraid of getting rid of children's one of the biggest enjoyments. Based on this fact, we will make NGO which will show parents or teachers the guide to how their children or students play video games like how long time in a day,or which kind of video games they should aboid to play. For example, one of the respondent of the survey raised "Call of Duty" as his fanorite game, which is too violent for kids. In fact, about 90% people think violent and sexal video games should be restricted to be played by children.

 We have thought that playing video games is efficient when children want to make new friends. However, the survey showed that about half chldren play them by himself. Besides, according to the resarch, we can save our time and money if we don't play video games too much. Our NGO will make a good plan for playing video games which is effective enough to make chikdren's life better.

 Finally,thank you for your cooperation.