This is a really interesting survey on how many Japanese people actually use a cell phone strap and the types of straps they attach to their phones. This survey was conducted by goo Research and was taken off What Japan Thinks.

This survey was conducted via internet questionnaires with 1,007 people. The age range of the interviewees were pretty spread out: 18.1% in their teens, 20.2% in their twenties, 17.1% in their thirties, 17.0% in their forties, 16.9% in their fifties, and 10.8% aged sixty or older.

Do you have straps attached to your cell phone or phones? (Sample size=880)

Yes, to all of them	72.6%
Yes, to some of them	1.7%
No, to none of them	25.7%

How many straps do you have attached to your cell phone? If you have more than one phone, answer for the one with the most straps attached. (Sample size=654)

One	54.4%
Two	26.0%
Three	11.8%
Four	4.6%
Five or more	3.2%

What kind of straps do you have attached to your cell phone?
(Sample size=654, multiple answer)

Character strap	50.3%
Ordinary strap	35.0%
Screen cleaner, light, ghost detector, other tool	14.8%
Neck strap	10.6%
Clip-on type strap	10.4%
Brand strap	8.6%
Strap supplied with phone	2.8%
Other	8.1%

Why don’t you have a strap attached to your cell phone? (Sample size=226)

Don’t feel it’s needed	51.8%
No designs I like	18.6%
Gets caught when I pull the phone out of my bag, etc	13.3%
Adds weight	5.8%
Don’t have a strap to attach	3.1%
Other	7.5%

Summing up: I guess its like what we always imagined, people do frequently attached a strap to their cellphone. One interesting thing is that about half of those with handphone straps actually attached more than one straps to their phones.

So how about you? Do you have more than 1 strap on your cellphone?