Japan: perceived trustworthiness of internet as a source of information by age group 2021

In a survey conducted in Japan during fiscal year 2021, 31.6 percent of respondents aged 50 to 59 years old stated that the internet offers trustworthy information. Trust in the reliability of the internet as a source of information was lower among the other age cohorts.

Share of people who think that the internet offers trustworthy information in Japan in fiscal year 2021, by age group

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Release date

August 2022

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Region

Japan

Survey time period

November 30 to December 6, 2021*

Number of respondents

1,500 respondents

Age group

13-69 years

Method of interview

Questionnaire

Supplementary notes

*The source counts the answers of the survey conducted from November to December 2021 as figures for fiscal year 2021. The Japanese fiscal year starts on April 1 of the stated year and ends on March 31 of the following year.

Respondents were asked to which degree the internet offered information that can be trusted. There were five possible answers: "One can trust all of it", "One can trust most of it", "About half and half", "One can only trust a part of it", "One cannot not trust it at all". The values shown in this statistic represent the combined share of respondents who answered either "One can trust all of it" or "One can trust most of it".

Sample size of age groups:
13 to 19 years: n=141
20 to 29 years: n=215
30 to 39 years: n=247
40 to 49 years: n=324
50 to 59 years: n=297
60 to 69 years: n=276

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