More HK Residents Satisfied with Govt Performance

The Hong Kong public's satisfaction with the overall performance of the government has registered further improvement in the past two months, according to the latest bi-monthly public opinion telephone poll conducted by the Hong Kong Home Affairs Bureau (HAB) from November 13 to 17.

The November poll showed that 27 percent of the respondents were satisfied with the overall performance of the government, as compared with 25 percent in the poll conducted by HAB in September 2000 and 20 percent in the July 2000 poll.

The percentage of respondents who were dissatisfied with the government's performance had also decreased -- from 60 percent in July and 54 percent in September to 50 percent in November.

The three most often mentioned problems in the latest survey remained to be labor-related, economy-related and housing-related.

While labor-related problems, mentioned by 46 percent of the respondents, continued to be the most often mentioned ones, the percentage recorded was four percentage points lower than that in the September poll.

Of those who had mentioned labor-related problems, 64 percent maintained that the government had exerted its effort to resolve them, three percentage points higher than in the last poll.

Economy-related problems were mentioned by 42 percent of the respondents.

Seventeen percent of the respondents mentioned housing-related problems and the percentage was largely the same as that in the September poll when 18 percent of the respondents mentioned these problems.

The poll also revealed that 42 percent of the respondents were satisfied with the present situation in Hong Kong and 79 percent expected the situation to improve or stay about the same in the coming 12 months. Both figures were the same as in the September poll.

The survey was the 91st in the series. It successfully interviewed 1,483 respondents by telephone. The interviewees, aged 15 to 64, were selected by random sampling through residential telephone directories.






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