read out various different choices (the order of the choices put
forward to the interviewees was different). The interviewees
selected what they felt were the primary tasks of the next Hong
Kong governor, and they were allowed to choose two items at most.
Of the 637 successfully concluded interviews, $9.8 percent of
the interviewees felt that the primary concerni of the next Hong
Kong governor was to handle the livelihood problems, such as
public order and inflation, etc., of the grassroots of Hong Kong.
In the correct order, the remaining primary concerns
the above chart) were smooth transition upen 1997, relations with
China, investors' confidence, and the speeding up of
democratization, etc.
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The results of the survey reflect that the average citizen is
obviously more concerned about livelihood issues than the pace of
the democratization of the political system, but it does not mean
that the citizens do not care about general political problems,
for the "smooth transition in 1997" and "relations with Chine"
that ranks second and third respectively often involve highly
political issues. A comparison of the total of the percentages
of the two issues (59 percent) to the interviewees' degree
Concern for livelihood problems indicates that the average
citizen is also very much concerned about the political problems
during the transitional period.
An analysis of the backgrounds of the interviewees shows that
the degree of concern shown to the various matters by men and
women is similar. There 13 a relatively significant difference
only in two of the "major tasks"
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With regard to relations with
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