(e) Survey Office Report
Survey office recorded wide range of public opinion. Survey
office received over 134,000 submissions. Of these, 126,000 were
from individuals, over 4,000 from groups of individuals, and over 1,000 from associations and other bodies. Survey office scrupulously careful to give appropriate weight to contributions
from all sources.
Impression of sharp division of views on timing of introduction of direct elections emerged from all quarters.
For example:
Percentage
For 1988
Against 1988
Members of LegCo
50
50
Members of Municipal Councils
70
30
Members of Distrct Boards Submissions for groups and
50
50
organisations
40
60
All views were recorded in Survey Office report and taken into
account in conclusions reached. Believe conclusions and decisions
reflect views of whole community.
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AGB MCNAIR SURVEY
Survey Office also commissioned AGB McNair Hong Kong to carry out two separate public opinion surveys.
AGB McNair employed such techniques as: sampling checks, field
work, monitoring and verification of interviews, use of cards to
explain detailed background to questions.
(Questionnaire too long and complicated?): Designed to reflect
as objectively as possible options set out in the Green Paper.
Scrupulously careful not to "lead" responses of interviewees towards
any given option.