Abstract
The query form used for social investigational survey can be divided in a choice type pattern and a free description answer pattern. Although the question of the free description answer pattern can draw the true intention of the respondent, it is difficult to analyze statistically.
In this study, we analyzed free description answer from a social survey for opinion of the elderly carried out by Tokushima city using the text mining method, and compared the results with those obtained by a choice type pattern using the multivariate analysis.
As the result, there was a correlation between results by the question of the choice type pattern and free description answers. And it was possible to draw out more objective assessments from free description answers than the choice type pattern.
