Item
Subject
Purpose
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Progress Made and Present Position
Next Quarter Target
No.
COMMUNITY INFORMATION
8.
(a) Fast Opinion Survey
Scheme (FOSS)
9.
(b) Mass survey on public attitudes towards general political, social and economic issues.
(a) Restructuring of Tung
Wah Group of Hospitals Retirement Plan
(b) Community Personali-
ties
To devise a scheme for fast collection and presentation of representative public opinion.
To identify basic public attitudes on key issues with a view to providing a benchmark for subsequent monitoring of public reaction towards major government programmes.
To assist Tung Wah in devising an acceptable scheme in place of the current Final Average Salaries Scheme.
To identify suitable com- munity personalities for appointment to Government boards and committees..
The evaluation paper on the FOSS experimental surveys was discussed at HAIG in August. The scheme was activated twice in September:
one on the election to district boards in urban area, and the other on the Prime Minister of Great Britain's talks with Chinese leaders. Some improvements in the sampling technique, are being considered.
Comments from concerned Branches and departments have been received. An information paper on the survey findings is being prepared.
Counter proposal has been sent to Tung Wah Group of Hospitals for consideration
Personality records have been updated and informal discussions with Branch Secretaries and Heads of Departments to identify
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To test the improved sampling technique before making FOSS available to Government as a management tool.
To present the information paper to HAIG and CSC.
To consider Tung Wah's finalised proposals for recommendation to Finance Committee for approval.
(a) To place existing mem-
bers with potentials and new nominees from departments on suitable boards and committees