Japan's voters divided into “six ideologies”: Voting behavior revealed by a 7,000-person survey, and the future of the largest group, the “new liberals” (3 of 8)

The survey was a large-scale study of 7,000 people. It showed that respondents were classified into 6 ideological groups based on similarities in their response patterns.

Latent class analysis was used as the analytical method, suggesting that people are divided into multiple groups rather than simply into liberals and conservatives. This approach was explained using an analogy to AI-based data interpretation.

The analysis highlighted the possibility that the relationship between political ideology and political parties differs across the 6 groups, and presented the characteristics of the segment comprising the majority of Japan as the New Liberals.

Part 3 is said to explore clues to the mechanisms behind current election results, making it an installment that will draw attention to future developments and follow-up reports.