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PLOVER COVE VILLAGE TO TAIPO MARKET

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and two of these had been tutored and had no formal school ex- perience. Ability to speak Cantonese, the lingua franca of Hong Kong, also made a strong difference: where the interviewer needed a translator, preference for the village was stronger.

This point is even further brought out with the combination of several indicators which enable us to look at the population of people who have high income drawn from at least two sources. We define in these terms those families where the husband is working and there is rent from one or more flats, or there is a husband working plus income from some other worker, or there is rent from four or more flats and the wife is working at home industry. There are thirteen such families not all of which enjoy very high income but undoubtedly have other fortunate social characteristics, such as involvement in family economic affairs by both husbands and wives and probably, therefore, better social relationships within the family. Only one of these families indicate that they were happier in the village. The rest of these data are summarized in Table II. It would be unreasonable to conclude

TABLE II

MULTIPLE SOURCES OF HIGH INCOME

BY WHERE HAPPIER

(Village or Resettlement Area)

Multiple source high income*

Not multiple source high income

5 (males) 10 (females)

Where happier

Village

I (male)

0 (female)

Resettlement area

6 (males)

3 (males)

2 (females)

1 (female)

Both, same, don't know,

no answer

-

2 (males)

2 (females)

2 (males) I (female)

* Rent (1 or more flats) plus husband or other worker, or 4 or more flats plus wife or wife doing home industry.