5.2 Background information about the respondents.
5.2.1 The information includes: age, sex, level of education, income,
place of birth, number of years living in Hong Kong, and occupation.
5.2.2 Distribution of age and sex of respondents compared with distribu-
tion in the district of Sham Shui Po East.
For both age and sex, the distributions of the sample resemble
that of the district.
sample district60.0
% 60
55.2
%40
32.6
31.2
24.3
30
20
10.0
108.
44.8
50
40.0
14.74.83.4
8.
ITI
18-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 51-60 60&
40
5.4 13.913.4
15.4
30
20
10
age
female
above fig.7 distribution of age in sample and
district
fig.8: distribution of sex
in sample and district
5.2.3 For other distributions of respondents' information, (figs. 9, 10,
11, 12, 13), comparision with distributions in the district is
not done because respective figures of the district cannot be
obtained from the Census and Statistics Department (as our line
was drawn at the age of 18).
%
de
30
20
10
6.9
36.6
24.3
23.2
6.1
2.9
illiterate primary junior senior
post-
others
secondary secondary
secondary
(P1-6) (F1-3) (F4-7)
fig.9: distribution of education level in the sample.
-18-