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As to the overall performance of the Government, the number of people who expressed satisfaction rose sharply from 39 per cent to 52 per cent.
The survey also revealed that the number of respondents who believed the Government had taken public opinion into account when formulating policies and making decisions, and who considered that the Government had made satisfactory efforts in disseminating information on its policies and decisions to the general public, had both gone up to 63 per cent.
The corresponding figures in the last survey were 58 per cent and 56 per cent.
Of the three most often mentioned problems facing the territory, labour-related issues, although still topping the list, had dropped substantially to 40 per cent from 65 per cent in January.
"Social welfare-related problems" came second at 31 per cent while "housing- related problems" was third at 28 per cent, compared to 12 per cent and 24 per cent in the previous findings respectively.
The survey was the 63rd in the series to gauge the trend of public opinion on perceived problems in Hong Kong and the community's views of the general situation.
Through a random sampling of residential telephone numbers, 1,520 persons aged between 15 and 64 were interviewed.
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AIDS ambassadors to promote AIDS awareness campaign
Five famous radio programme hosts and hostesses - Mr Hung Chiu-fung, Ms Li Pik-sum. Mr Gary Ngan, Ms Pamela Pak and Mr Paul Tse- have been appointed AIDS awareness ambassadors by the Committee on Education and Publicity on AIDS (CEPAIDS) at a ceremony held today (Monday).
The ceremony also marks the official opening of the "10 Years of AIDS in Posters Exhibition" at the Hong Kong Arts Centre.