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Majority satisfied with civil servants' working attitude
A public opinion survey conducted in May by the Home Affairs Branch (HAB) has shown that 58 per cent of the respondents felt that the working attitude of civil servants were good.
Releasing the latest findings of the bimonthly survey, an HAB spokesman said the figure represented an increase of four percentage points from 54 per cent in March.
Only a quarter of the respondents thought otherwise, down from 28 per cent.
As to the overall performance of the Government, 51 per cent said they were satisfied, about the same as the 52 per cent recorded in the last poll.
The percentage of people who felt the Government was concerned about their views on public affairs remained at 55 per cent.
Of the three most often mentioned problems facing the territory, labour-related issues, although still topping the list, had dropped from 40 per cent to 35 per cent. Sixty-three per cent of the respondents, up from 59 per cent, thought the Government had exerted effort in solving the problem.
Housing-related problems took second place at 32 per cent while the issue on Hong Kong's future was third at 26 per cent. The corresponding figures in March were 28 and 22 per cent respectively.
The survey was the 64th in the series to gauge the trend of public opinion on perceived problems in Hong Kong, Government's overall performance and the community's views of the general situation.
Through a random sampling of residential telephone numbers, 1,524 persons aged between 15 and 64 were interviewed.
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