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Survey on civil servants' performance

A public opinion survey conducted in January by the Home Affairs Branch (HAB) has shown that 55 per cent of the respondents felt that the working attitudes 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 51 per cent in November last year.

The survey also indicated that 43 per cent of the respondents regarded the civil service as efficient, compared with 40 per cent in the previous poll.

Asked about their views of the present situation in Hong Kong, the percentage of people expressing satisfaction has remained at 62 since last September.

On the future, 55 per cent of the respondents showed confidence that the territory would continue to be prosperous and stable, a slight increase from 53 per

cent.

More than half (51 per cent) also expected the situation to improve or stay about the same in the next 12 months, up from 47 per cent.

Of the three most often mentioned problems facing the territory, labour-related issues continued to top the list at 65 per cent, a marginal drop compared with November's 66 per cent.

The percentage of respondents concerned about "housing-related problems" and "economy-related problems" both stood at 24 per cent. The corresponding figures in the last survey were 30 per cent and 21 per cent respectively.

The survey was the 62nd 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, 1,515 persons aged between 15 and 64 were interviewed.

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