3.1.2 Worries over living standard, social and personal liberties
etc..
On the question whether, assuming 'HK people ruling HK'
after 1997, the respondents worry over the following:
a) living standard would be lowered;
b) personal freedom would be restricted;
c) liberties would be removed;
d) economic structure would change abruptly;
e) the Judiciary would lose independence and
f) the Chinese Government would interfere with local affairs;
we get these findings:
%
do not worry
worry
no opinion total
living standard
personal freedom
54.5
34.4
11.1
100
53.5
39.4
7.1
100
liberties
52.4
35.6
12.0
100
economic structure
41.9
45.9
12.2
100
Judicial independ-
43.2
41.9
ence
14.9
100
interference from
PRC
35.6
55.2
9.2
100
table 2 respondents worry or do not worry in each aspect.
From table 2, we can see that over half of the respondents
do not worry over the living standard, personal freedom and
liberties, but 55.2% of them do worry over the interference from
China with local affairs.
3.1.2.1 On dividing the respondents into different age groups, we find
the percentage of worrying respondents in each age group. See
table 3.
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