≪A Survey on Actual Usage of Mobile Phones/Smartphones for Minors≫
～Survey on actual use of applications and internets by mobile phone/smartphone users～
Smartphone users are 60.2% Elementary Students and 82.0% Junior High School Students
One in four Female High School Students were not feeling well due to overuse
One in five were warned for getting lowered grades ～39% believe that the most reliable information source is “TV station”, One in four people answered “Doesn’t trust Anything”

TOKYO, Japan – Digital Arts Inc. (headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan; CEO: Toshio Dogu; “Digital Arts”; Code 2326), a provider of information security software, conducted a survey on the latest usage for minors’ mobile phone/smartphones for 618 nationwide children (elementary, junior high, and high school) of both genders, 579 parents of children aged 0 to 9 years old, and total of 1197 targeted people.

Actual usage of mobile phones/smartphones from 10 to 18 years old ※The figure in the parentheses are numbers of the previous survey in January 2016.

• User of smartphones for minors (10 to 18 years old) with some type of mobile phone is 80.3% (70.6%). 60.2% (37.9%) is upper Elementary School (10-12 years old), 82.0% (76.2%) is Junior High School Students, and 98.5% (97.6%) is High School Students. The user for elementary students has risen.
• The overall filtering usage was 53.9% (52.3%). The highest was 59.6% (54.1%) for Female High School Students.
• The average usage time per day was 3.2 hours (3.0 hours) for overall children. Female High School Students are 6.1 hours (5.9 hours), and "less than 3-6 hours" was 42.7%.
• The most frequent used apps are "LINE" 73.9% (66.3%), "YouTube" 58.6% (53.4%), "Twitter" 35.8% (40.9%) for overall children.
  Other high popularity among female high school students are "SNOW" 58.3%, "Instagram" 50.5%, and "Mercari" 49.5%.

Changes since beginning to use mobile phones/smartphones

• The overall trend increased: "warned for overuse throughout the day" was 36.2% (30.1%), "used even during meal time" was 23.0% (18.8%), "used until fallen asleep” was 23.0% (17.8%), and "due to lack of sleep, attention became distracted" was 16.3% (13.4%),
• One in four Female High School Students felt “the number of sick conditions such as headache has increased” - 26.2% (14.6%)
• Male High School Students were 21.4% (19.4%) and Female High School Students were 20.4% (9.7%), 1 in 5 people answered "was told their grades has gone down".

Allowance earned on the Internet

• The experience of earning allowance on the Internet was 34.5% (30.7%) for overall children, 73.8% (79.6%) for Male High School students and 81.6% (68.9%) for Female High School students.
• The reason to start earning allowance for overall children were "choosing from free time or at your own pace" was 46.5% (33.2%), "additional personal earnings" was 45.5% (47.4%), and “unoccupied time was a waste” was 29.6% (22.1%). Ways to earn allowance was "point exchange"- 78.4% (76.8%), "selling used goods" - 18.8% (12.6%), and "creating LINE stamp” - 16.4% (1.6%). The average monthly income was "less than 10,000 yen" for 86.4% (86.8%).
• Female High School students: 54.8% preferred to earn allowance by ‘choosing from their free time or at their own pace’, 75.0% for 'point exchange', and 32.1% by 'selling used goods'.

Concept of Risk and Consciousness in Information Reliability

• Wanting the realization of friendship on the internet for overall children was 47.4% (49.4%), and for Female High Schoolers was 53.3% (68.5%), which was less than last time.
• The recent incidents on the internet that overall children felt they can relate to were "leaked personal information" -25.6%, “hijacked accounts" - 17.8%, "Friends/acquaintances post photos /videos without permission" - 15.9%, and "Nothing" was the highest at 61.5%.
• Overall children are cautious about illegal acts such as: "Not to complain about or insult others" - 52.8%, "Do not disclose personal information / photos of others without permission" - 36.6%, "Do not threaten others” - 24.8%, "do not pressure others to consider commit suicide" - 23.3%, and "do not publish without permission of what others made, without quoting secondarily" - 22.2%. Overall risk awareness was low.
• The most reliable resource to attain information was the "TV station": children - 39.3% and parents - 28.8%. Next reliable resource was the "Newspaper Company": children - 21.8% and parents - 23.3%. On the other hand, "Doesn’t Trust anything" for children was 23.6% and parents were 25.6%; percentage of one in four people.

With or without Experience and interest in tablet study/programming

• Elementary School students have many experiences using tablets. Male Elementary School students (10 to 12 years old) was 27.2%, Female Elementary School students (10 to 12 years old) was 33.0%. Overall, "interested" in programming was 47.0%, "with experience" was 14.5%.

Internet device user for 0 to 9 years old and used without permission

• Private device holder of 0 to 9 years old: owns some kind of device was 56.8% (55.5%), classified to "Mobile game" was 25.0% (27.6%), "Exclusive Child mobile phone" was 15.7 % (15.3%), "tablet devices" was 12.6% (11.9%), and "Non-Contracted used smartphone" was 10.4% (8.9%).
• Surprised children were using without permission was 54.1% (52.6%), classified to "watching movies" was 67.7% (62.7%), "using the camera app" was 28.8% (32.6%), and "calling someone" was 23.3% (25.2%).