HKU POP SITE releases the latest rating of CE Tung Chee-hwa,people's satisfaction with the HKSAR Government and members of the Legislative Council in generalBack

The Public Opinion Programme (POP) at the University of Hong Kong today releases on schedule via the "HKU POP SITE" (http://hkupop.pori.hk) the latest rating of CE Tung Chee-hwa, people's satisfaction with the HKSAR Government and members of the Legislative Council in general. Our normal practice is to release the results of our regular surveys every Tuesday at 2 pm via our POP Site, except during public holidays, each time with a forecast of the items to be released in the forthcoming week. We will review and adjust this operation regularly.

According to our schedule, the date and time of our next release will be July 23, 2002, Tuesday, at 2 pm, the latest results of the four subjective social indicators on Hong Kong's degree of "democracy", "freedom", "prosperity", and "stability" will be released. We will also release the latest results of a series of questions related to the judicial system in Hong Kong.

According to the survey findings released today, CE Tung Chee-hwa's rating registered in early July (July 2-3) was 51.9, a drop of 0.9 mark from that of late June, which was statistically insignificant.

As regards people's appraisal of the HKSAR Government's performance, 43% of the respondents were dissatisfied, 24% were satisfied, 27% said "half-half", while 6% did not give a definite answer. These figures have remained stable over the past month.

Regarding the performance of the Legislative Councillors in general, our latest findings showed that 23% were satisfied, 20% were dissatisfied, 28% said "half-half", while 29% did not give a definite answer. When compared with the results obtained in early May, the satisfaction figure has increased by two percentage points, while the dissatisfaction figure has decreased by three percentage points.

The new survey reported in the POP Site today is a random telephone survey conducted by interviewers, targeting at Cantonese speakers in Hong Kong of age 18 or above. The sample size of the survey is over 1,000 respondents. At 95% confidence level, the sampling error of the CE rating is plus/minus 1.4 marks, while that of all percentages is less than plus/minus 3 percentage points. That means if we were to repeat a certain survey 100 times, using the same questions each time but with different random samples, we would expect 95 times getting a figure within the error margins specified. Shall anyone have any question regarding the research design of the surveys published in the POP Site, members of the POP Team will be happy to answer them, but we will not comment on the findings at this stage. Such an arrangement would be reviewed when more resources are available. Please note that Dr CHUNG Ting-yiu Robert, Director of Public Opinion Programme, is solely responsible for the work published in the POP Site, which does not represent the stand of the University of Hong Kong.