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May/June 1989

AUG. 89

(ii) Any task performed badly

Survey

SURVEY

Yes

43%

49%

NO

Don't know/no comment

(Base No. of respondents)

34%

31%

23%

20%

(1585)

(1567)

Tasks

performed

Task with

worst

Areas of work

(a) badly

(b) performance

May/

May/

June 89 AUG. 89

Survey

72%

SURVEY

June 89 AUG. 89

Survey

SURVEY

78%

70%

76%

Vietnamese refugees/

boat people

Future of Hong Kong and

5%

10%

2%

6%

political system

Transport and construction 14%

8%

9%

68%

of roads/tunnels

Environmental protection

49%

4%

2%

3%

and pollution

Performance of government

1%

w

0:0

1%

29%

departments and civil

servants

(Base No. of respondents) (686)

:

(770)

(686) (776)

22.

26% of the respondents mentioned some tasks in which the Government had performed well in the past six months. This is higher than the figure recorded in May/June 1989 (20%).

23.

The first three mostly mentioned good tasks performed by the Government were "transport and construction of roads/

tunnels" (27%), "security, law and order" (26%) and "housing and