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COMMUNITY ATTITUDES TOWARDS CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT :

RECENT OPINTON POLL_TRENDS

INTRODUCTION

This paper attempts to identify community attitudes

towards constitutional development as revealed by opinion

polls. Particular attention is paid to public attitudes

towards specific proposals in the original 1992

constitutional package and to the modified version put

forward during negotiations with the CPG. For this purpose,

it is important to date opinion polls accurately. Hence,

wherever practicable, this paper labels poll findings by the

agency and polling date rather than by the newspaper

and date of publication. (Unless otherwise specified, all

data are from 1993 polls.)

survey

2.

The analysis covers all major polls conducted in

the run-up to the Policy Address as well as those undertaken

since.

The most satisfactory opinion polls from a technical

standpoint,

experience

are organised by Hong Kong University, whose

and

expertise provide a benchmark against which

other survey agencies feel compelled to compete.

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