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horizontal total column in Table 2 below, providing one bears

in mind of course the previously mentioned probable under-

estimation of young people. Such a guess would not, we argue here, be totally dissimilar from the actual age/sex distribution

of the sample members.

Table 2

Age/Sex Distribution of the Manufacturing Population (1971)

Census Report

25-39

Male

Female

Under 25

116842 (17%) 127938 (19%) 108415 (16%)

158418 (23%) 58040 (8%) 56297 (8%) 21784(3%)

40-54

55 & over Total

38028(5%)

391223

294539

275260

185978

164712

59812

685762*

*The percentage figures are based on this number to allow easy comparison with the pilot

survey.

Marital Status:

The majority of the sample (63) were single, only 37 were married;

at first this seems a surprisingly low number since 51 married

respondents in the sample were aged 20-29 years. However, this

appears to be commensurate with the average age of marriage in

Hong Kong.

Hong Kong Census Report 1971 (p 36)

20-24 years proportion married = 7.9%

Males

11

Females

25-29

20-24 11

25-29

11

11

11

!!

#t

11

=

36.5%

=

32.4%

= 79.9%

Number of Children.

Nearly a 1/3 (24) of those respondents who were married did not

have any children. This means in fact that for the total sample,

72 were childless. Of those respondents who did have children,

few had large numbers but the respondents' fairly young age range

and the fact that their children were mainly either school

children or too young to have started school suggests that the

majority of the respondents' families may not have been completed

yet.