{"id":121296,"date":"2021-12-13T15:20:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T07:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/?post_type=press&#038;p=121296"},"modified":"2021-12-13T17:55:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T09:55:12","slug":"survey-findings-on-views-about-the-2021-legislative-council-election-released-by-hong-kong-institute-of-asia-pacific-studies-at-cuhk","status":"publish","type":"press","link":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/press\/survey-findings-on-views-about-the-2021-legislative-council-election-released-by-hong-kong-institute-of-asia-pacific-studies-at-cuhk\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey Findings on Views about the 2021 Legislative Council Election Released by Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at CUHK"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-121296","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"title_alt":"","sub_title_alt":"","press_date":"20211213","keep":false,"details":"A telephone survey was conducted from 29 November to 8 December 2021 by the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong to gauge public views about the 2021 Legislative Council election. Of the respondents, 41.3% said they were interested (including those who were somewhat interested or very interested) in the election. 30.8% of the respondents who were registered electors answered that they were going to vote in the coming Legislative Council election.  \r\n\r\n<strong>Major findings are summarised as follows:<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe survey found that 41.3% of the respondents said they were interested in the 2021 Legislative Council election to be held on 19 December 2021 (including 31.9% who were somewhat interested and 9.4% who were very interested), and 52.8% were not interested (including 34.6% who were not very interested and 18.2% who were not at all interested). \r\n\r\nOf all the respondents, 92.0% were registered electors. 30.8% of those who were registered electors said that they would definitely vote in the coming Legislative Council Geographical Constituencies election on 19 December 2021 and 17.4% of them might vote in the election. Meanwhile, 32.8% said that they would not do so and the other 19.0% answered \u201cdon\u2019t know or have not made a decision\u201d. Of the respondents who were going to vote, might vote or had not made a decision, 35.3% said that the most important criterion for their voting choice was the candidate\u2019s \u201cplatform\u201d, followed by \u201crelevant political or public service experience\u201d (23.5%) and \u201cparty affiliation\u201d (11.4%).\r\n\r\nAll respondents were asked about the most important function of the Legislative Council. A comparatively larger portion replied \u201cmonitoring the work of the government\u201d (39.7%), followed by \u201cenacting laws\u201d (15.8%), \u201cgauging public opinion\u201d (14.9%), and \u201cdiscussing policies\u201d (9.9%).\r\n\r\nLastly, when asked about their views on the performance of the Legislative Councillors in the most recent year, 43.2% of the respondents indicated dissatisfaction, while 38.1% answered \u201chalf-half\u201d. 10.5% said they were satisfied with their performance.\r\n\r\nThe survey employed a dual-frame sampling design that included both landline and mobile phone numbers. A total of 712 respondents aged 18 or above (landline: 353; mobile: 359) were successfully interviewed, with response rates of 27.5% (landline) and 31.7% (mobile). The sampling error is estimated at plus or minus 3.67 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. Weighting of survey data was based on the probability of the respondents being selected via dual-frame sampling design and relevant age-sex distribution of the population published by the Census and Statistics Department.","show_as_achievement":false,"achievement_category":[],"show_as_clarification":false,"show_as_announcement":false,"photos":null,"attachments":[{"text":"\u9644\u8868","link":"","file":121295}],"video_source":"","video_file":"","add_play_button":false,"video_caption":"","show_migration":false,"original_id":0,"photos_original":null,"attachments_original":null},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/121296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/121296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121310,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/121296\/revisions\/121310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}