A telephone survey was conducted from 23 to 27 September 2016 by Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong to gauge public views on emigration from Hong Kong. 710 respondents aged 18 or above were successfully interviewed, with a response rate of 38.5%. The sampling error is + or – 3.68 percentage points at a confidence level of 95%. <\/p>
Major findings are summarized as follows:<\/strong> <\/p> Around two-fifths (38.9%) of respondents indicated they would emigrate to other places if they got the chance. However, only a tenth (10.9%) of those respondents were taking actions to make preparation (equivalent to only 4.2% of the total number of respondents). A further analysis to break down the tendency of emigration by age group or level of education indicated that younger people (e.g. aged 18-30: 57.0%) had a higher tendency to emigrate compared to the older people (e.g. aged 51 and above: 26.0%). Moreover, more people with college or above education (53.8%) indicated their intention to emigrate in contrast to the number of people of other levels of education. Among those inclined to emigrate, about one in five (19.2%) hadn’t decided where to move. The most preferred destinations, ranked by popularity, were Taiwan (16.3%), Australia (15.2%), and Canada (13.8%). <\/p> Top pushing factors for emigration among those inclined to move were “dissatisfaction with SAR government \/ government performance \/ Chief Executive \/ high-ranking government officials” (11.0%), “overcrowded living conditions” (10.5%), “too much political dispute \/ social cleavage” (10.3%), and “slow economic growth or bad economic prospect” (10.3%). Top pulling factors included “ample living space” (18.8%), “more democratic or liberal” (15.8%), “to meet up with family members, relatives or friends living overseas” (8.4%), and “enjoyable life” (8.2%). <\/p> Respondents were also asked about their sense of belonging to Hong Kong. Though 42.8% of all respondents had a strong or very strong sense of belonging, 40.1% replied that it was average. When they were asked about their satisfaction with various aspects of life in Hong Kong, the fewest respondents were satisfied with political environment (7.1%), followed by educational system (16.2%), living conditions (18.2%), economic prospects (18.5%), and social welfare (30.3%).<\/p> Among all the respondents, about 11.7% had experiences of living abroad for six months or longer. 6.5% of respondents had foreign rights of abode and 30.8% had family members or relatives now living abroad. Three in five respondents (59.7%) would decline to relocate to emerging market countries if they had just started to develop their career.<\/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":"2364","photos_original":null,"attachments_original":[{"link":"57fc611c4cb06.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\/49343","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\/49343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}