Press Freedom Index Survey 2017Back
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The Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA) commissioned Public Opinion Programme at The University of Hong Kong (POP) to conduct the “Press Freedom Index Survey” in 2013 and released its first Hong Kong Press Freedom Index. It was compiled through a scientific research method designed by a group of academics (advisory panel) formed by HKJA. Since 2013, HKJA commissioned POP for five consecutive times to conduct this “Press Freedom Index Survey”. There are two groups of target respondents: Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong citizens aged 18 or above and the local journalists. The objectives of the survey were to gauge the public and the journalists’ views on press freedom in Hong Kong, track changes over time and calculate the “Press Freedom Index”.
Questionnaires of both surveys were designed by the advisory panel. Fieldwork operations and data analysis of the public survey were conducted independently by POP. For the journalist survey, HKJA was in charge of data collection while POP was responsible for conducting data analysis. It should be noted that, some questions asked in this survey are brand new and therefore not comparable to the last four surveys. The 10 question items used to calculate the Press Freedom Index in 2017 were the same as the years passed, just the weighting of the 10 items are slightly adjusted. |
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Research Team Members
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Telephone interviews of the public survey were conducted by real interviewers under close supervision. All data were collected by our interviewers using a Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI) system which allowed real-time data capture and consolidation. Telephone numbers were randomly generated using known prefixes (including landline and mobile numbers) assigned to telecommunication services providers under the Numbering Plan provided by the Office of the Communications Authority (OFCA). Invalid numbers were then eliminated according to computer and manual dialing records to produce the final sample.
The target population of the public survey was Cantonese-speaking Hong Kong citizens aged 18 or above. The survey was conducted on 15 to 18 January 2018. A total of 1,033 eligible respondents were successfully interviewed. The effective response rate of this survey was 63.5%, and the standard sampling error for percentages based on this sample was less than 1.6 percentage points. In other words, the sampling error for all percentages using the total sample was less than plus/minus 3.1 percentage points at 95% confidence level.
For the journalist survey, it was conducted on 15 January to 28 February, 2018. HKJA was in charge of distributing questionnaires to journalists from different digital and print media, including reporters/translators/photojournalists, assignment editors, chief editors/editorial directors, etc. In total, 781 questionnaires were distributed. Finally, a total of 520 respondents were successfully interviewed. The response rate of this survey was 66.6%, and the standard sampling error for percentages based on this sample was less than 2.1 percentage points. In other words, the sampling error for all percentages using the total sample was less than plus/minus 4.1 percentage points at 95% confidence level. |
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Summary of findings (Chinese pdf only) Frequency tables (Chinese pdf only) Demographics of respondent (Chinese pdf only) Survey questionnaire (Chinese pdf only) List of consultant group members (Chinese pdf only) Presentation (Chinese pdf only) Appendix I : press release prepared by Hong Kong Journalists Association (Pdf only) |
