HKU POP SITE releases survey findings regularly Back

The Public Opinion Programme (POP) at The University of Hong Kong today releases, as scheduled, via its website the "HKU POP SITE" (http://hkupop.pori.hk), the result of its latest surveys on people's satisfaction with the SAR Government and Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa's latest popularity rating. The date of its next release has also been fixed to be November 27, Tuesday, at 2 pm. The popularity rating of Top Ten Legislative Councillors as well as that of Tung Chee-hwa's will then be released. Since October 30, the "POP Site" has started to regularize its release of survey findings, at a frequency of about once every two weeks, each time with a forecast of its next date of release. This practice will be reviewed monthly, with the objective of gradually increasing the frequency and content of such releases.

As a matter of fact, since September 1996, POP had been publishing its survey findings regularly via its monthly newsletter, the "POP Express". Additional and frequent releases of "extra" issues of POP Express also evolved gradually. However, due to a number of reasons, the editorial work of these monthly newsletters stopped in November 1999, after publishing the September 1999 issue. By the end of 2000, the irregular extra issues also stopped, their functions gradually taken over by the POP Site. In a way, the increase in POP Site's activity is a continuation of POP's effort in publishing the POP Express. Shall anyone have any question regarding the research design of the surveys published in the POP Site, our team members will be happy to answer them, but we will not comment on the findings. Such an arrangement would be reviewed when we have more resources.