Questionnaire results

1. Questionnaire Results
Cutlery

2. How old are you?
• Our results are from a rage of
different ages; 16-63.
However, we predominantly
asked younger people and this
has impacted on our results in
ways we expected in regards
to the topic of our
documentary.
• We had a sample size of 28

3. What time of day are you most
likely to watch TV?
Never Daytime Evening Night
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Looking at the results we collected, we have concluded that the younger generations
e.g. teenagers and adults, tend to watch TV in the evenings (Prime Time). It is the older
generations that watch TV in the mornings and during the day for reasons such as
being retired or not having to look after children. We found 2 people said they do not
watch terrestrial TV and instead watch programmes on Netflix and Amazon whilst others
watch late at night.

4. What channel do you tune
into the most?
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Looking at the results, the majority of people watch BBC. This includes all
of their other channels such as BBC 1, BBC2 etc. Furthermore, we can also
conclude that Channel 4 is another popular channel.Some could not decide
whilst others watched lesser known channels such as E!

5. Do you know where you bought
your cutlery from?
• Clearly, the majority of cutlery was bought
from Ikea with other major supermarkets
also proving popular. This suggests that
people do not consider buying cutlery as
part of a weekly shop and would be unusual
to regular replace it. Ikea is often linked with
the idea of redecoration and so this may
suggest that we buy cutlery when
remodelling the house or moving into a new
one
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6. Where was your cutlery
made?
• As the majority of cutlery was bought from Ikea, many
people assumed their cutlery was made in Sweden.
However, many people were unsure as cutlery does not
always have a ‘made in…’ engraving and so not may people
actually know where it comes from. There was also a high
number of people who said Chin which may be because the
majority of products are made in China. This would be an
interesting fact to research in our documentary. 10
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7. Does your cutlery have a
certain design?
• Overall, the majority of people have cutlery with certain designs on
them. Designer cutlery is becoming more popular once again,
becoming bolder and more individual as people seek to express
themselves more. Although, plain cutlery is cheaper and so often,
people who are moving into new homes will try to keep costs of trivial
things low. As a result, the younger independent generations are
more likely to own plain cutlery compared to older generations or
families.
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8. Do you know what your
cutlery is made from?
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Interestingly, not may people knew what their
cutlery was made from. Those who did stated it
was made from stainless steel which the majority
seem to be. Those unsure simply stated metal.
Again this would be an interesting topic to
approach.

9. Do you buy/replace your
cutlery often?
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Considering we don’t know what our cutlery
is made from, it is interesting that we don't
buy or replace it that often. Of course some
people do looking at our results but even then
they stated it was yearly.

10. When having dinner, do you
lay the table?
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Laying the table is a a form of traditional etiquette
that is going out of fashion. The younger
generations no longer have to lay the table when
instead they can have ‘teas on knees’ and so it
would be interesting to see what other traditional
practice we have forgotten and also what practices
are still upheld e.g. within Royal families.

11. Do you have cutlery for
special occasions?
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Occasions such as christmas often come with having
special cutlery. An example of this would be christmas
spode which has a specific design of a christmas tree.
This too appears to be going out of fashion as more
than half the people we questioned did not have cutlery
for special occasions.

12. Do you own a knife block?
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Nearly all the people who answered the
questionnaire owned a knife block which
suggests it is becoming more common.
Cutlery is becoming cheaper and so people
ca know buy more sophisticated
implements.

13. Do you use any alternative
forms of cutlery?
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The knife, fork and spoon are the most
commonly used implements yet a minority use
interesting utensils such as chopsticks ad also
sporks which are a more resent invention. It
would be interesting to research the evolution of
cutlery and how it has evolved; especially
looking at how they might have adapted to
accommodate disabilities.

14. Do you own any cutlery
specific to a type of food?
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Cutlery such as butter knives are going out of
fashion considering you can just use a normal
knife. this is the same idea for may other
utensils. Furthermore, people are no longer
trying to impress others so these utensils are
unnecessary.

15. Are you more inclined to buy food
products if they offer free cutlery?
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Freebies have always been an inceptive to buy certain
products and free cutlery is no exception. In todays
society, nothing is free and so when companies
advertise ‘free’ cutlery when people buy their product,
generally we are more inclined to do so. On the other
hand, we have also grown less passive meaning we
no longer accept that we should buy certain items
because of what they offer.

16. What piece of cutlery do you
use the most?
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According to our questionnaire, people are
most likely to use a fork when eating. This
utensil is the most practical as it ca deal with
most foods unlike a spoon which is only good
for liquids and knives which are only used to
cut up food.

17. Do you use cutlery for ay alternative
purposes other than its intended use?
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From the people who said yes, we
discovered that they used cutlery to
make puppets and to open/unjam
things that may have gotten stuck.
Mostly though people only use them
to eat food with.

18. Do you know anyone with a
phobia of cutlery?
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There are different types of phobias associated with
cutlery. A well-known singer, Liam Payne from 1
Direction, apparently has a spoon phobia. People can
also have a phobia of metal or the colour grey/silver
which most cutlery is made of/the colour of. However
it is not obviously not a well known phobia and may
be a unique selling point of this documentary.

19. Do you have any knowledge
about cutlery?
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Apart from the very basics, people do
not know any facts about cutlery. This
topic has gone unexplored and so
would be very informative and unique.

20. Do you think this topic is
interesting?
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Although many seem unsure on how interesting this
topic could be, the more when uncover about cutlery the
more i feel people will be inclined to watch the
programme. As no one knows much about cutlery, they
are unsure on what our documentary will actually email
and so be a bit wary. We hope our documentary will be
interesting, informative and peculiar; making cutlery less
of a marginalised topic.

21. Would you watch a
documentary on cutlery?
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Again these results reveal how wary and dismissive people may
be about this documentary. It is important to note that the majority
of our sample are below 20 although our target audience is above
25. We know our documentary is more appealing to the older
generations which is reinforced by our results as show the older
people being more interested in the topic (the older people said
they would watch the documentary) but we hope that maybe the
younger people may be ore interested after seeing what we may
discover.

22. How many sets of cutlery do
you own?
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I discovered that depending on how many
people lived in the house impacted upon how
many sets they had. The more people, the more
cutlery. This is a form of evolution as we have
moved away from using our fingers to eat to
having our own set of utensils.

23. Do you know anything about
the history of cutlery?
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The history of cutlery i think will be an
interesting topic to research. Cutlery has
evolved from mere fingers through to
metal. It is questionable when we decided
to start using other objects to eat with and
so we would research when and why we
did but also how this has changed over the
years.

24. Do you know about cutlery in
different cultures?
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It is important to note that the use of cutlery
is different in other countries; such as the
chopsticks. Therefore, a section f our
documentary could be devoted to the
different, perhaps unusual, utensils people
from different cultures use.