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Majority confident of HK's continued prosperity: HAB poll
The latest public opinion survey conducted by the Home Affairs Branch (HAB) in January has shown that 73 per cent of the respondents are confident that Hong Kong will continue to be prosperous and stable.
This represented an increase of 13 per cent as compared with the situation in November last year, an HAB spokesman said today (Friday).
A similar percentage of respondents were satisfied with the present situation, which was about the same as in the last survey in November, 1996.
The number of respondents who expected the situation to improve in the next 12 months increased from 15 per cent in last November to 25 per cent while 45 per cent of the respondents believed it would stay about the same.
Civil servants' working attitude struck 56 per cent as good while those who took the opposite view had gone down from 27 per cent to 23 per cent.
As to the overall performance of the Government, 48 per cent expressed satisfaction and 28 per cent thought otherwise. This compared with 54 per cent and 25 per cent respectively in the last survey.
Of the three most-mentioned problems facing Hong Kong, housing issues continued to top the list at 68 per cent.
Twenty-seven per cent of respondents expressed concern about labour-related problems while social welfare-related problems were mentioned by 25 per cent.
The survey was the 68th in the series to gauge the trend of public opinion on perceived problems in Hong Kong, the Government's overall performance and the community's view of the general situation.
Through a random sampling of residential telephone numbers, 1,506 respondents aged between 15 and 64 were successfully interviewed.
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