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5. Survey Office Report

Survey

Survey office recorded wide range of public opinion. office received over 134,000 submissions. Of these, 126,000 were from individuals, over 4,000 from groups of individuals, and over 1,000 from associations and other bodies.

Survey office

scrupulously careful to give appropriate weight to contributions

from all sources.

Impression of sharp division of views on timing of introduction of direct elections emerged from all quarters. For example:

Percentage

For 1988

Against 1988

Members of LegCo

50

50

Members of Municipal Councils

70

30

Members of Distrct Boards

50

50

Submissions for groups and

organisations

40

60

All views were recorded in Survey Office report and taken into

Believe conclusions and decisions account in conclusions reached.

reflect views of whole community.

AGB MCNAIR SURVEY

Survey Office also commissioned AGB McNair Hong Kong to carry out two separate public opinion surveys.

AGB McNair employed such techniques as: sampling checks, fiel work, monitoring and verification of interviews, use of cards to explain detailed background to questions.

(Questionnaire too long and complicated?): Designed to

as objectively as possible options set out in the Green Paper Scrupulously careful not to "lead" responses of interviewees toward

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