Report on Pilot Survey of 100 Blue Collar Workers Employed in
Manufacturing Indistry in Hong Kong Main findings and Brief
Indicate of Revision of Interview Schedule.
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Background of the Respondents
(1) Personal characteristics of the respondents
Age and Sex: We attempted to control for these factors in the
selection of the 100 pilot respondents.
distribution.
Table 1
See below for sample's
Age/Sex of sample
Under 30 years
30 years & over
Total
Male
23
Female
45
Total
3381
23
46
9
54
68
32
100
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With-regard to male/female ratio, the samples ratio of 46 men to
54 women seems close to the 1976 fiqures for manufacturing as a whole
where 49% of the persons engaged were men and 51% women. (See
Imployment Statistics March, 1976 Table 2)
With recard to ace breakdown, there are no figures available for this
breakdoen for manufacturing in 1976. The 1971 Census Report does
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give a breakdown for the different age groups in manufacturing (np.95ff)
but it seems likely that there has been a significant shift in
employment population since this census because the sex ratio in 1971
in manufacturing was in fact 57 men to 43 women.
See the vertical
(se
total column of table 2 below). This change in the sex ratio in
manufacturing between 1971 and 1976 may very well be a reflection of
the boom in the electronics industry in Hong Kong which brought large
numbers of young girls on th the shop floor. Thus it would be
reasonable to argue that the 1971 age breakdown of the manufacturing