TNAG-1321-FCO40-1727-Future-of-Hong-Kong-opinion-polls-and-surveys-1984 — Page 189

3.1.2 Worries over living standard, social and personal liberties

etc..

On the question whether, assuming 'HK people ruling HK'

after 1997, the respondents worry over the following:

a) living standard would be lowered;

b) personal freedom would be restricted;

c) liberties would be removed;

d) economic structure would change abruptly;

e) the Judiciary would lose independence and

f) the Chinese Government would interfere with local affairs;

we get these findings:

%

do not worry

worry

no opinion total

living standard

personal freedom

54.5

34.4

11.1

100

53.5

39.4

7.1

100

liberties

52.4

35.6

12.0

100

economic structure

41.9

45.9

12.2

100

Judicial independ-

43.2

41.9

ence

14.9

100

interference from

PRC

35.6

55.2

9.2

100

table 2 respondents worry or do not worry in each aspect.

From table 2, we can see that over half of the respondents

do not worry over the living standard, personal freedom and

liberties, but 55.2% of them do worry over the interference from

China with local affairs.

3.1.2.1 On dividing the respondents into different age groups, we find

the percentage of worrying respondents in each age group. See

table 3.

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