Chapter 1: Background Information and Procedure of the Survey
Chapter 2: SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
(1) Organizers: Lee Chik Yuet, Elected Urban
Councillor, and member of Shamshuipo District Board. Wong Chee Kwun, Elected District Board Member, Shamshuipo.
Tang Sun Wah, Elected District Board Member, Shamshuipo.
(2) Time Schedule:
A. Preparation and drafting of questionaire:
November 1983 - March 1984
B. Data Collection: 16th
1984
31st March,
C. Data analysis and compilation: 1st-15th
April, 1984
D. Release of preliminary findings at press
conference: 11th April, 1984
E. Publication of report: 19th April, 1984. (3) Target Population:
Residents of Shamshuipo West, Hong Kong (1981 population: 210,000)
(4) Sampling:
Random sampling from the list of registered voters (Shamshuipo West) and Household Information of the Census and Statistics Department.
(5) Valid returned questionaires: 1222
A. Mail questionaires:
(i)
Questionaires mailed out: 5143
(ii) Valid returned questionaires: 1012 (iii) Return rate: 19.7%
B. Questionaires completed through
interview: 210
N.B.: A marked difference on the response to questions of a sensitive nature has been identified between two data collection methods, namely mail questionaire and interview. The data collected by respective methods are thus listed side by side throughout the report for comparison purpose.
1. On the future political structure in
post-1997, residents generally accept a framework of "Hong kong people administering Hong Kong" which should be based on democratic election.
58.1% (67.2%)1 of the respondents of mail questionaires have chosen "Hong Kong people self-rule"2 as an ideal political structure after 1997. If the "Hong Kong people administering Hong Kong"3 model is the only alternative, then only 11% (2.7%) will not accept, the rest will accept or partially accept.
2.
Over 80% of the respondents consider that to implement the "Hong Kong people
administering Hong Kong" model, the whole of, or the majority of the members of the highest level of policy-making body must be chosen by election. They hold the same view for the appointment of the future chief executive or governor.
Even though the model of "Hong Kong people administering Hong Kong" is accepted, the majority of the residents have worries over the intervention into Hong Kong's internal administration by the People's Republic of China.
84.1% (68.9%) of the respondents have worries over the interference into Hong Kong's internal administration by the Chinese Government. Other related worries include: the lack of independent of the judicial system, drastic changes in the economic system, the abduction of personal liberty and citizen rights and a decline in living standard.
'Figures in brackets are results of questionaires completed through interviews with randomly selected households.
2"Hong Kong people self-rule" refers to a loosely
defined concept of self-rule by Hong Kong citizens.
3"Hong Kong people administering Hong Kong"
model refers to the model formally originated by the People's Republic of China.
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