The purpose of this survey was to identify the penetration levels of loanwords between Japanese people. Of the items in the survey results, "understanding ratio" was used in the Proposal for the Paraphrasing of Loanwords as a measure of the difficulty of understanding each loanword.
| Number of examined words: | 405 words |
| Number of surveyed people: | 750 people on 120 words, and 2,111-2,118 people on the remaining 295 words |
| Population: | Male and female individuals from different parts of Japan no less than 16 years old |
| Sampling method: | Stratified two-stage random sampling |
| Survey method: | Individual interviews by researchers |
| Survey period: | From November 2002 through August 2004 |
The survey results are provided in Excel and other file types, which you can download for use.
The results of the National Survey on the Use of Loanwords in Japanese are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.