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Majority satisfied with present situation: HAB poll
The latest public opinion survey conducted by the Home Affairs Branch (HAB) in November has shown that 74 per cent of the respondents were satisfied with the present situation in Hong Kong.
The percentage, slightly up from 73 per cent in the last bimonthly survey in September, has indicated a rising trend since May which then stood at 70 per cent, an HAB spokesman said today (Friday).
Fifteen per cent of the respondents expected the situation to improve in the next 12 months while 46 per cent believed it would stay about the same. This compared with 15
per cent and 47 per cent respectively in the last survey.
As to the overall performance of the Government, 54 per cent expressed satisfaction, a slight increase from 52 per cent, while the number of people feeling dissatisfied had decreased from 27 per cent to 25 per cent.
Respondents regarding civil servants' working attitudes as good also rose from 55 per cent to 56 per cent while those who took the opposite view had gone down from 29 per cent to 27 per cent.
Of the three most often mentioned problems facing Hong Kong, housing issues continued to top the list at 41 per cent, the same as in the last survey.
Among this group of respondents, 75 per cent considered that the Government had exerted effort in solving the problem, which represented an increase of three percentage points. Twelve per cent also said the Government had handled the problem well, up from 11 per cent.
The percentage of respondents concerned about labour-related problems dropped marginally from 32 per cent to 31 per cent while those concerned about Hong Kong's future, the third most often mentioned issue, remained unchanged at 25 per
cent.
The survey was the 67th 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, 1,513 persons aged between 15 and 64 were successfully interviewed.
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