Instant Survey for Political Reform Debate 2010Back

To fulfill its social responsibility, the Public Opinion Programme (POP) at the University of Hong Kong conducted an instant survey during the TV debate between Chief Executive Donald Tsang and Civic Party leader Audrey Eu on June 17, 2010, in order to track people's appraisal of their performance during the debate, and people's support for the policy reform package. The findings were first released and used by media sponsors, including electronic, written and online media, of instant survey. During the debate, the media sponsors continuously received statistical updates. After the debate, the media sponsors received many more cross-tabulation in-depth analyses, which were embargoed for publication until 3am. POP considered the arrangement has balanced the interests of all media sponsors. 48 hours after the debate, all survey results were disclosed for public consumption via this website. This survey was partly co-sponsored by Cable TV, now Broadband TV, RTHK, South China Morning Post and Apple Daily. POP hereby acknowledges their support with thanks. Users of these findings are requested to cite the source appropriately when re-printing or quoting these figures.

| Survey method | Contact information | Respondents' demographics |

| Further Analysis | Performance of Debaters in Time Series abstracted from the Debate instant poll |

Date of survey : 17/6/2010

[S3] Have you watched or listened to tonight's debate on political reform for 5 minutes or more, through television, radio or internet?

	Frequency	Percentage
Yes	509	54.2
No	430	45.8
Total	939	100.0

[Q1] Who has done better in tonight's debate?

	Frequency	Percentage
Donald Tsang does better	77	15.1
Audrey Eu does better	363	71.3
Don't know/ hard to say	69	13.6
Total	509	100.0

[Q2] If you had a vote, would you vote for or against the government's proposal on 2012 CE election?

	Frequency	Percentage
vote for	183	37.2
vote against	256	52.0
abstain / blank vote	53	10.8
Total	492	100.0
Missing	17

[Q3] How about its 2012 LC election proposal?

	Frequency	Percentage
vote for	198	40.3
vote against	234	47.7
abstain / blank vote	59	12.0
Total	491	100.0
Missing	18

[Q4] Has tonight's debate changed your degree of support or opposition towards the government's political reform package in general?

	Frequency	Percentage
Increase support / reduce opposition	99	19.6
Increase opposition / reduce support	226	44.8
No change in support or opposition / no change at all	151	30.0
Don't know/ hard to say	28	5.6
Total	504	100.0
Missing	5

[SCMP-1] If the Legco vetos the political reform package in the end, will you vote for pan-democratic candidates in the Legco geographical election in 2012?*

	Frequency	Percentage
Yes	244	48.1
No	150	29.6
Don't know/hard to say/undecided	113	22.3
Total	507	100.0
Missing	2

* sponsored by South China Morning Post and released on 19/6.

Further Analysis

Analyses of [Q1] with respondents' demographics (Chinese only)

Analyses of [Q2] with respondents' demographics (Chinese only)

Analyses of [Q3] with respondents' demographics (Chinese only)

Analyses of [Q4] with respondents' demographics (Chinese only)

Analyses of [Q2] with [Q1] and [Q4] (Chinese only)

Analyses of [Q3] with [Q1] and [Q4] (Chinese only)

Analyses of [SCMP-1] with respondents' demographics (Chinese only)