March 7 1977.
Dear Mr. Duffy,
University of Bath
Claverton Down
Bath BA2 7AY
Telephone Bath 6941 (STD code 0225)
School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Professors: S Cotgrove R Holman CT Sandford
It is an
I enclose our last bill deriving from our Hong Kong Study. important part of social survey ethics to send firms who cooperated some indication of the survey findings and I have prepared a simple list of summary tables for this purpose. (I have in fact had several letters from Hong Kong firms enquiring whether and when they would receive this information.)
I would also like to take the opportunity, since I am writing to you, to make a number of points regarding payment to me of the eleven days extra expences in Hong Kong both subsistence expences at the appropriate rate and sundries. I feel that there should be taken into account in any administrative
decisions that may be made
1) I, in fact, received only a half rate honarium for August of £400 compared to the £800 received by Professor Hart
2) I did at least five weeks work in my own time at Bath tabulating
and analysing the data for the two surveys
3) I have not asked the F.C.0. to pay for the computing time which was necessary to handle such very large survey. At the moment the computer time has come out of my personal research allocation at Bath.
this time would be considerable if it was billed to the F.C.0.
The cost of
4) The survey has produced data which is extremely valuable, all the more so since such a large and diverse population was interviewed and my presence in Hong Kong during the actual interviewing was absolutely essential both in view of the number of interviewers that had to be organised (40 persons in all) and particularly the tremendous speeding up of the project which was expressly asked for by the F.C.0.
Yours sincerely,
Patrina fosh.