{"id":50060,"date":"2019-08-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/press\/survey-findings-on-views-about-the-ancestral-homereleased-by-hong-kong-institute-of-asia-pacific-studies-at-cuhk\/"},"modified":"2019-08-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T00:00:00","slug":"survey-findings-on-views-about-the-ancestral-homereleased-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-ancestral-homereleased-by-hong-kong-institute-of-asia-pacific-studies-at-cuhk\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey Findings on Views about the Ancestral HomeReleased by Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at CUHK"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-50060","press","type-press","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"title_alt":"","sub_title_alt":"","press_date":"20190821","keep":false,"details":"

A telephone survey was conducted from 19 to 30 July 2019 by the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, to gauge public views on their ancestral home. A total of 94.3% of the respondents knew where their ancestral home was; 58.1% of them said that they had never gone back or had not gone back in the last three years. <\/strong><\/p>

Major findings are summarised as follows<\/strong> <\/p>

A total of 94.3% of the respondents knew where their ancestral home was. The major ancestral home of these respondents was in Guangdong (84.5%), Fujian (5.1%) and Hong Kong (2.1%). Those who said that their ancestral home was in other provinces of the Mainland and other places were 6.8% and 1.2% respectively; 0.3% answered that they did not know the exact location of their ancestral home. <\/p>

Of those who knew the exact location of their ancestral home (excluding those whose ancestral home is Hong Kong), 58.1% had never gone back to their ancestral home (30.9%) or had not gone back in the last three years (27.2%). 30.9% answered that they had gone back one to five times in the last three years, 6.4% had gone back six to ten times, and 3.0% had gone back 11 times or more. The major reasons for going back to ancestral home was to ‘visit relatives, pay a New Year call, celebrate a festival, or participate in a banquet’ (66.4%); ‘visit an ancestor’s grave’ (40.4%); and ‘travel’ (25.4%). <\/p>

In general, 35.0% of the respondents said that they had no interest in their ancestral home, 34.1% showed interest, and 28.8% answered ‘average’. Of those who knew the exact location of their ancestral home (excluding those whose ancestral home is Hong Kong), 48.7% said that their sense of belonging to the ancestral home was ‘low’ (12.9%) or ‘very low’ (35.8%); 27.2% answered ‘average’; and 20.6% said that it was ‘high’ (12.9%) or ‘very high’ (7.7%). The mean score on the sense of belonging to the ancestral home is 2.42 (on a 5-point scale). <\/p>

When asked about their sense of belonging to China, 41.5% said that it was ‘low’ (14.3%) or ‘very low’ (27.2%), 33.5% answered ‘average’, and 22.0% said that it was ‘high’ (12.5%) or ‘very high’ (9.5%). The mean score on the sense of belonging to China is 2.62. Regarding their sense of belonging to Hong Kong, 77.4% said that it was ‘high’ (29.5%) or ‘very high’ (47.9%), 16.0% answered ‘average’, and only 5.7% said that it was low’ (2.9%) or ‘very low’ (2.8%). The mean score is 4.18. <\/p>

In this survey, a total of 752 respondents aged 18 or above were successfully interviewed, with a response rate of 37.1%. The sampling error is estimated at plus or minus 3.52 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.<\/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":"3101","photos_original":null,"attachments_original":[{"link":"5d5cf5098070b.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\/50060","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\/50060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}