 | | All surveys on people's expectation for policy addresses conducted by the POP Team are telephone surveys conducted by interviewers under close supervision. |
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| | Target population of these surveys are Cantonese speakers in Hong Kong of age 18 or above. |
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| | The sample size of these surveys are more than 500 successful cases each time. Since May 2000, it has been increased to more than 1000, and weighted according to gender-age distribution of the Hong Kong population. |
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| | Telephone numbers are first selected randomly from telephone directories as seed numbers. Another set of numbers is then generated by using the plus/minus one/two method. Duplicate numbers are then screened out, and the remaining numbers mixed in a random order to become the final sample. |
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| | Upon successful contact being made with a target household, one member of the household is selected among those present using the "next birthday" rule. |
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