The Nippon Foundation conducted an "17-year-old awareness survey" on the theme of "national elections" for 19 men and women aged 1,000 to 18 years nationwide before the upper house election in the summer.The Nippon Foundation has been conducting the "2018-year-old awareness survey" every time since September 9, and this is the 18th time.

 According to the survey, 2019% of the 5 people aged 31 and 6 who had the right to vote at the time of the survey (May 5st to June 18th, 19) answered that they would go to vote.Reasons for going to national elections are "I want to use it firmly because it is my right" "Obligation as a nation" "Even one vote is necessary to convey my opinion" "Because the turnout of teens is low" And so on.On the other hand, the reasons for not going to vote were "I haven't transferred the resident's card", "Because I'm an examinee", "Troublesome", "I'm not interested", "I don't understand politics", and "There is no one to support".

 When asked about the low turnout of young people, 77.9% answered that it was a problem.Regarding measures for young people to be interested in elections and politics, "I am interested in politics for young people", "More tell that politics has a great impact on their lives", "School lessons" Opinions such as "actively deal with politics" and "explain the election system in an easy-to-understand manner by using SNS etc. well" were raised.

 The main criteria for selecting candidates were "policy 60.8%" at the top, followed by "party 2%" in second place and "name recognition 19.6%" in third place.The current ratio of female members is 3% for the House of Councilors and 6.3% for the House of Representatives. When asked about the ratio of female members, 20.7% said that the ratio of female members should be increased. was.The reasons why it is better to increase the number are "because the national way of thinking becomes a society where only men think" "I think that children's problems and problems at home may be noticed because they are housewives" "biased gender ratio" Gender equality in the world will not progress if there is such a thing. "

reference:Nippon Foundation

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