{"id":48739,"date":"2014-01-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/press\/survey-findings-on-the-hksar-governments-popularity-in-january-2014released-by-hong-kong-institute-of-asia-pacific-studies-at-cuhk\/"},"modified":"2014-01-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T00:00:00","slug":"survey-findings-on-the-hksar-governments-popularity-in-january-2014released-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-the-hksar-governments-popularity-in-january-2014released-by-hong-kong-institute-of-asia-pacific-studies-at-cuhk\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey Findings on the HKSAR Government\u2019s Popularity in January 2014Released by Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at CUHK"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-48739","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"title_alt":"","sub_title_alt":"","press_date":"20140128","keep":false,"details":"<p>A telephone survey was conducted from 21 to 24 January 2014 by Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong to study the popularity of the HKSAR Government for the month of January 2014. &nbsp;760 respondents aged 18 or above were successfully interviewed, with a response rate of 45.6%.&nbsp; The sampling error is + or &ndash; 3.55% at a confidence level of 95%.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p><p><strong>Major findings are summarized as follows:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p><p><strong>Satisfaction with the HKSAR Government.<\/strong>&nbsp; According to the survey of January 2014, while 39.3% of respondents expressed dissatisfaction with the HKSAR Government, 22.5% said they were satisfied.&nbsp; 37.8% of 760 respondents answered 'in-between'.&nbsp; The corresponding figures in December 2013 were 45.5%, 15.8%, and 38.2%.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p><p><strong>Rating of Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying.<\/strong>&nbsp; The current survey showed that the performance rating of Chief Executive (with a point scale ranging from 0 to 100 while 50 as a passing mark) stood at 46.1 in average and it was 42.1 last month.<\/p><p><strong>Ratings of Three Secretaries. <\/strong>&nbsp;The ratings of Chief Secretary for Administration (Carrie Lam), Financial Secretary (John Tsang), and Secretary for Justice (Rimsky Yuen) in January 2014 were 59.1, 58.2, and 51.5 respectively.&nbsp; The corresponding figures in December 2013 were 58.4, 56.2, and 50.4.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p><p><strong>Overall Rating of the HKSAR Governing Team (including politically-appointed officials). <\/strong>&nbsp;The overall rating of the HKSAR governing team was 47.4 in January 2014.&nbsp; The rating in December 2013 was 44.0.&nbsp;<\/p><p><strong>Trust in the HKSAR and the Central Governments.&nbsp; <\/strong>25.3% of respondents showed trust in the HKSAR government and 34.6% expressed distrust.&nbsp; 38.9% answered 'in-between'.&nbsp; The results of December 2013 were 21.5%, 38.5%, and 39.2% respectively.&nbsp; Concerning the level of trust in the Central Government, while 37.2% said they did not trust the Central Government, 22.4% answered the opposite.&nbsp; 38.9% said 'in-between'.&nbsp; The corresponding figures in the previous month were 36.4%, 22.7%, and 38.2% respectively.&nbsp;<\/p><p><strong>Views on 2014 Policy Address.<\/strong>&nbsp; In the survey, the respondents were also asked about their views on the 2014 Policy Address.&nbsp; While 22.0% of them felt the new Policy Address satisfactory, more than one-third (35.3%) showed dissatisfaction.&nbsp; 40.8% answered 'in-between'.&nbsp; The overall rating of the 2014 Policy Address was 47.5, which is lower than the passing mark of 50.&nbsp; Concerning the subjective perception of its usefulness to boost government's popularity, 30.9% of the respondents thought it helpful, 32.8% believed otherwise, and 33.6% said 'in-between'.&nbsp; Being asked if the current shape of the 2014 Policy Address was better or worse than their expectation, 12.0% of the respondents said it was better, 29.1% thought it worse, and 48.4% answered 'the same\/ no change'.&nbsp; 8.0% told that they had had no expectation on the new Policy Address in the first place.&nbsp;<\/p>","show_as_achievement":false,"achievement_category":[],"show_as_clarification":false,"show_as_announcement":false,"photos":null,"attachments":null,"video_source":null,"video_file":null,"add_play_button":false,"video_caption":"","show_migration":false,"original_id":"1745","photos_original":null,"attachments_original":[{"link":"52e72e784a75a.pdf","text":"Attachment (Chinese version only)"}]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/48739","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":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press\/48739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}