2.
Present popularity of medical insurance
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Question 4. Have you bought medical insurance? (This insurance will pay your
medical expenses when you are sick.)
(1) Yes
(2) No
Findings:
Only 1.5% of employees (N = 2089) have bought medical insurance.
(Table 0046)
Question 5.
Has
(2) No
your employer bought medical insurance for you besides
the provisions of the Employment Ordinance? (Explain)
(1) Yes
(3) Don't know
Findings:
15.3% of employees had medical insurance besides the provisions
of the Employment Ordinance provided for by their employers, while 66.9% did
not have and the rest 17.9% did not know whether their employers had done so.
(Table 0047).
Question 6. Have you bought sickness insurance?
salary allowance when you are sick).
(1) Yes
(2) No
(This insurance will give you
Findings:
Only 1% of employees had bought sickness insurance which gave
salary allowance when they were sick. (Table 0048)
Question 7. Has your employer bought sickness insurance for you besides the
provisions of the Employment Ordinance? (Explain)
(1) Yes
Findings:
(2) No
(3) Don't know
12.3% of employees (N 2089) had sickness insurance provided
by their employers, while 69.6% did not have and the rest 18.1% did not know
whether their employers had done so. (Table 0049)
Question 8. There is a type of sickness and injury insurance.
It will
give you income allowance when you cannot work due to sickness
or injury.
Do you think this type of insurance is useful to you or not?
(1) useless- Why? (Don't prompt) (2) Useful
(3) Don't know