The Chinese University of Hong Kong\u2019s (CUHK) Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies conducted a telephone survey from 21 to 29 April 2022 to gauge public views about social mobility in Hong Kong. 52.0% of the respondents said that there were not enough chances of upward mobility for young Hong Kong people. 63.3% of the respondents answered that the chance of upward mobility for young people had worsened compared to 10 years ago.<\/p>\r\n
The major findings are:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n 52.0% of the respondents to the survey said that Hong Kong currently did not provide enough chances for upward mobility for young people, while 32.7% answered \u201cin-between\u201d and only 10.7% said that there were enough chances.<\/p>\r\n 63.3% of the respondents said that the chance of upward mobility for young people had declined compared to 10 years ago, while 23.9% replied it was similar to ten years ago and only 9.1% said it had improved. When the respondents were asked whether the chance of upward mobility for young people would be better in the next decade or beyond, 37.5% of them predicted that it would get worse, 32.5% predicted it would be similar to the current situation and 21.1% predicted it would be better.<\/p>\r\n All respondents were asked whether young people would have a better chance of success if they pursued careers on the mainland. 41.4% of them answered \u201chalf-half\u201d, 29.8% said no and 19.4% said yes. When asked whether young people would have a better chance of success if they pursued careers in foreign countries, 48.3% of the respondents answered \u201chalf-half\u201d, 23.2% replied they would not and 15.1% thought they would.<\/p>\r\n Regarding personal social mobility experiences in the past five years, 57.8% of the respondents said that they had been stationary, while 18.2% thought they had moved downwards and 11.9% felt that they had moved upwards.<\/p>\r\n Lastly, when asked about the meaning of upward mobility, 34.4% of the respondents answered that it was having \u201cmore wealth and a better career\u201d, followed by \u201chigher quality of life\u201d (29.1%), \u201chigher education level\u201d (17.0%) and \u201cstronger influence on society\u201d (6.4%).<\/p>\r\n The survey employed a dual-frame sampling design that included both landline and mobile phone numbers. A total of 706 respondents aged 18 or above (landline: 349; mobile: 357) were successfully interviewed, with response rates of 27.9% (landline) and 30.7% (mobile). The sampling error is estimated at plus or minus 3.69 percentage points at a 95% confidence level. The 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.<\/p>","show_as_achievement":false,"achievement_category":[],"show_as_clarification":false,"show_as_announcement":false,"photos":null,"attachments":[{"text":"Tables (Chinese version only)","link":"","file":125815}],"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\/125807","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":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/125807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125817,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/125807\/revisions\/125817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}