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Job Characteristics of the respondents.
The respondents were employed in the Garments, Textiles, Plastics,
Metals
Miscellaneous (and Electrics and Electronics industries with the
largest group being employed in the first. All of the firms were
owned locally, two thirds by Cantonese sneaking proprietors and
the remaining third by Shanghainese speaking proprietors. The large
majority of the firms were located in the Kowloon and New Kowloon
area with a few being located in the New Territories.
The size of
firm the respondents worked for was controlled for in the survey
désign and 50 respondents were selected from small firms and 50 from
large firms. All of the small firms employed 30 or less employees
while the number of the large firms' employees most frequently fell
into 1,000 to 1,999 category, while the over 2,000 category had the second
highest frequency here. Comparison of the size of the firms sampled
in the pilot survey with the size distribution of all manufacturing
firms in Hong Kong (see Employment Statistics March 1976 Table 2)
suggests that the sizes of the firms selected for the "small firms
category" were fairly representative but that the sizes of firms
selected for the "large fims category" were rather larger than is
typical for thong kong: