LAST PAPER
CHIEF SECRETARY'S OFFICE GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT HONG KONG
布政司辦公 廳
AKK 011/4.
7
CR2/1146/76
JAB Stewart Esq OBE
Hong Kong & General Department
FCO
LONDON SW1
1N,
No
Dear John.
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11 April 1978
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on record the enclosed evaluation of the Reform Club Report by our Home Affairs and Census and Statistics Departments. This casts some doubt on
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the validity of the findings in the Report on the delectans but
following grounds
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Although the basic methods employed appear to have been sound, it is difficult to judge whether they were properly employed on this occasion. To take just two examples, the Master Sampling Frame is said in paragraph 1 of the Technical Appendix to the Report to be a sample of 25,000 households "designed and drawn so as to be representative of all the households in the Colony". There is no indication of how this was done. It is difficult, however, to think of any way in which a complete and reliable sampling frame could have been obtained without some reference at least to the Census and Statistics Department, but they were not approached. Also, there is no indication of the quality of enumeration or of the methods used. For example, how much trouble was taken to explain the meanings of the terms used to respondents?
It may be relevant that although Survey Research Hong Kong Ltd (SRH), which conducted the survey, was highly regarded a few years ago, following changes in key staff there are some uncertainties as to their present reliability.
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