Investigation About Opening Anticafe in one Among 5 European Countries

Our investigation covered people from 5 European countries such as Denmark, the UK, the Netherlands, Ireland and Finland. 220 people of different nationalities, age, occupation and gender were questioned during this research. The results are shown in the bar charts given below.

Number of People Questioned During Investigation (Criterion - Age)

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Bar Chart 1

Let us have a closer look at bar chart 1. It deals with criterion of age and each country chart is divided into 4 parts – people of ages 14 to 18, 19-25-year old people, those who are 26 to 35, and there are 5 people who are over 36. As you may see, the majority of people are of age 19-25 irrespective of the country they are from. There are 40 people from the UK, 35 from Denmark and the Netherlands, 25 people from Ireland and 20 from Finland. However, there are no people of some age groups, for instance, there were no people of age 14-18 questioned during this research, as well as no people of age 26-35 were asked questions in Finland.

It is also worth pointing out that some of these people are of the other nationalities, but now they are living in one of these European countries. For example, there are five Lithuanian men who live in Denmark, four German from the UK and a girl who is Italian, but now she lives in Denmark.

The second criterion of the research is gender. It would be useful to pay attention to it as the results are the following.

Number of People Questioned During Investigation (Criterion – Gender)

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Bar Chart 2

Judging from bar chart 2, we may conclude that more people of the male gender than of the female one were surveyed. The largest number of men is seen to be in Ireland, whereas the largest number of women is from the Netherlands. Irish results are the most controversial – the number of men asked questioned is more than twice as big as of women (35 male and only 15 female). On the contrary, there is equal number of people polled from the Netherlands – 25 male and 25 female. So, as it has already been said, there were 220 people who took part in this survey.

I would also like to notice that depending on the first criterion Age, all these people are of various occupations. There are students (30 from Denmark, 40 from the UK, only 20 from the Netherlands, 30 from Ireland and all 25 are students from Finland), entrepreneurs (Denmark – 10 people, the UK – only 5 persons, 15 from the Netherlands, 10 from Ireland) and office workers (Denmark – 10 people, 15 from the UK, 10 people from the Netherlands, Ireland – 15 people). As you may see, there are no entrepreneurs and office workers questioned during the investigation.

In addition to this, it would be useful to say that some of these people combine study with work. For instance, a student from the UK, Ireland and Finland may be also an entrepreneur of an office worker.

The hectic life and its fast pace influence people free time significantly. So, spending several hours going out is becoming more and more precious. We asked our respondents how much free time they have during the day. The results are clearly shown in the following bar chart.

Amount of Free Time during the Day (hours)

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Bar Chart 3

This bar chart shows that the largest amount of free time in all countries except Finland is 2-4 hours per day. 35 people in Ireland, as well as 30 people from both the Netherlands and Denmark and 25 people from the UK spend from 2 to 4 hours of free time daily. By contrast, people from Finland may have only 1 hour of free time, and there is the equal number of those who spend 4-6 hours of free time during the day. At this time, people from the UK and Ireland cannot rest completely, if they have less than 1 free hour. They need to have at least 1 or 2 hours of free time to feel themselves better.

The next question asked to respondents was obvious – how they prefer to spend this free time. There were various options given to them, so they could choose one or several of them. The results are given below.

How People Spend Their Free Time

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Bar Chart 4

Analyzing this bar chart 4, we may claim that many people from these 5 European countries like to spend their free time meeting with friends (150 people), watching movies (90 people), going to cafés (75 people), walking on the streets and reading books (55 people). 80 people find some other activities which they use to spend their free time.

Speaking about countries, it is useful to notice that 20 out of 25 respondents from Finland said that they prefer going to cafés, 45 respondents from Ireland like to meet with their friends, no one from the UK like reading books and none of the respondents from the Netherlands would prefer playing any kind of games – sports, table or computer ones.

“How do you prefer to organize your self-studies / work?” was the next question in our questionnaire, and here we also have unpredictable results. Have a look at the bar chart below.

How People Prefer to Organize Their Self-studies / Work

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Bar Chart 5

Result show us that majority of people questioned during the investigation would like to organize their self-studies/work being at home. There are 135 of them. Also many of respondents (95 people) would prefer to study at the University or at school, 65 people would spend their time in the library and 60 would like to work in the office. The number of those who prefer studying/working in the public place equals the number of those who like to study at friends’ (40 people). This is the least result as 50 people would find some other place to organize their self-study/work.

Taking into consideration criterion “Countries”, here we see that people from the UK prefer studying / working at home, as well as people from the Netherlands (30 and 40 respectively). By contrast, people in Ireland and Finland would organize self-studying at University or at school (30 and 25 respectively). And it is worth pointing out that respondents from Ireland can find the other place where they organize the process of self-studying or work.

Now I would like to pay your attention to the next question and the results we have gained from our European respondents. The question was “How much time do you spend on your self-studies?” and the time limit groups were from half an hour up to 6 hours. The next bar chart shows us the results.

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