It has been 5 years since the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute (HKPORI) became independent in 2019, concurring with a period of rapid changes in Hong Kong. In 2024, the team ruminates over the role of public opinion research here and now. While looking back at the data accumulated in the past 30-odd years, we believe each piece of historical data reflects changes in society, and we also believe in the value of the data today and tomorrow, so only by continuing our work can we bring out the weight of the data....Read More Over the past few months, HKPORI has initiated various developments like restructuring our social media platforms and redesigning our website, reorganising our data downloading platforms, promoting Deliberative Polling, beginning topical studies, and optimising our membership system. To echo with our repositioning, from end of October, the team will also gradually launch the following 5 new content series, via our social media platforms:
1) Special Topics: Irregular online surveys. Topics are decided regarding current public concerns, government agendas, or international discussions. We strive to make use of polling data to deepen discussion on these issues and look into the issues in a multi-dimensional perspective.
2) Deliberative Polling: In partnership with Stanford University, HKPORI will conduct online Deliberative Polls (e-DP) to analyse citizens’ opinions on local policies.
3) International Data: By comparing public opinion around the world, we can understand the world better before we solve local problems.
4) Polling 101: Aim to “talk about numbers” in plain language to help the public understand the results and not be misled.
5) Guest Columns: Invite a number of experts to provide regular analyses and relevant works to make use of opinion data in creative ways.
2024-10-31
(1) Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute (HKPORI) has decided to hold its second online Deliberative Poll (e-DP) next Wednesday (November 6) at noon time. The discussion topic was chosen by nearly 1,400 PopPanel members through an online survey last week. Result showed “Support for carers” (53.6%) topped the list, followed by “Promoting waste reduction and recycling” (52.0%) and then “Economic revitalization” (51.0%). Following public opinion, HKPORI has decided to choose “Support for carers” as the topic this time. Tomorrow, members will be invited to sign up for this e-DP, ...Read Morewe hope that around 20 members will participate.
(2) In addition to our regular telephone surveys, there will be irregular online surveys on topical issues of local and international concern. The first topic is on the fertility policies promoted by the government in the past two years. The survey was completed between October 3 and 9, with nearly 2,500 valid responses. Starting this Tuesday (November 29), findings and analyses would be released for public consumption through our social media platforms.
(3) Finally, HKPORI today announces the suspension of two more tracking surveys, namely “Popularity of Political Groups” and “Popularity of Disciplinary Forces”. Together with the “Popularity of Executive Councillors”, “June Fourth Incident” and “HKSAR Anniversary” surveys announced in July, there are a total of 5 suspended poll series. HKPORI will continue to use a basket of 6 factors, which include public’s expressed interest, research value, cost-effectiveness, members’ opinion, historical value, and legal risk to determine whether a tracking survey will be continued or not.
2024-10-22
Responding to the latest Policy Address, Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute (HKPORI) will organize its second online Deliberative Poll (e-DP) in early November. HKPORI has yesterday (October 21) sent emails to its POP Panel members, inviting them to select topics suitable for discussion, among poverty alleviation, population, economy, housing and environmental protection,
and so on. As of 13:00 today, we have received nearly 1,000 responses. Next Monday (October 28), members will be invited to sign up for this e-DP. The DP concept was introduced by the Deliberative Democracy Lab at Stanford University. For more details, please see their website.
2024-10-08
Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute (HKPORI) will continue its ongoing practice since 1992 to conduct a Policy Address Instant Survey on Oct 16 (next Wednesday) using a mixed mode including SMS. The target population will be Hong Kong residents aged 18 or above, with no less than 500 successful cases. We will release the results online that day at around 9:30pm, then hold a press conference on the following day (Oct 17). Media who are interested to sponsor our operation in exchange for early use of the findings, please contact us at [email protected]. The link to the online survey for SMS participants will start with s2.pori.hk, we hope those sampled will participate actively.
2023-06-20
Our research team was founded in June, while our Institute became independent in July. We also set May 4 to be our Foundation Day. Thus, every year from May to July, we review and brainstorm our future development. ...Read MoreThis year is no exception, especially when we are about to finish our “One Country Two Systems 25-year Mid-term Review”. We need to examine the demand for public opinion data, the historical development of Hong Kong society, and the role of HKPORI in promoting science and democracy. In May this year, our President has already forecasted that the historical and global positioning of HKPORI would change again. In early June, we announced that we would cut down our self-funded data collection activities, step up our secondary data analysis, and also adjust the scope of our tracking surveys in terms of topic and release format. Today, near the end of our review process, we have tentatively decided to cancel about one-fourth of our regular survey questions, and about one-third of the remaining questions will be used for internal reference, academic research and commissioned services, instead of free releases. These topics tentatively cover our handover series, ethnic identity, cross-strait issues, global awareness, June Fourth Incident, Councillor ratings, disciplinary forces and some social indicators. We will finalize the list by the end of this month and announce it in July. Meanwhile we are setting up an academic research team to develop our secondary data studies, in order to make better use of the data collected over the past 30 years or so. People from all walks of life, especially HKPORI subscribers, are welcome to contact us on how to use our unpublished data legally for collaborative projects or commissioned studies, in order to promote civic education and empirical-based professional analysis. We will set up a system for such data access later, we welcome email enquiries and will answer them one by one openly online.
2023-06-02
HKPORI launched its “One Country Two Systems 25-year Mid-term Review” in June last year. It will end this month after publishing 25 reports over the period of more than 12.5 months, meaning one report per every half a month on average. Herewith the full list: ...Read More
1) Government Officials (2022-06-07)
2) June Fourth (2022-06-14)
3) Ethnic Identity (2022-06-21)
4) Government Popularity, Handover, Social Indicators (2022-07-05)
5) Trust and Confidence (2022-07-12)
6) Social Conditions (2022-07-19)
7) Cross-strait Political Figures (2022-07-26)
8) Governments and Peoples (2022-08-09)
9) Freedom Indicators (2022-08-23)
10) Rule of Law Indicators (2022-09-13)
11) Popularity of Secretaries (2022-09-27)
12) News Media (2022-10-11)
13) Policy Addresses (2022-10-18)
14) Disciplinary forces (2022-11-22)
15) Year-enders (2022-12-20)
16) Political Figures (2023-01-18)
17) Executive Councillors (2023-01-27)
18) Cross-strait Governments and Peoples (2023-02-02)
19) Budgets (2023-02-14)
20) Political Groups (2023-03-09)
21) Government Popularity X Social Indicators (2023-03-22)
22) Legco Members (2023-04-13)
23) Government Popularity X Year-end Happiness (2023-04-26)
24) Government Popularity X Social Conditions (2023-05-24)
25) Public Sentiment Index (2023-06-28)
With the completion of the Review Series, starting this July, HKPORI will reduce its self-funded effort to collect primary data, step up its secondary data analysis, and also adjust the scope of its tracking surveys in terms of topic and release according to public demand. We welcome email enquiries and will answer them openly online.
2022-08-02
HKPORI launched the “One Country Two Systems 25-year Mid-term Review” in early June, so far seven reports have been released. We expect to publish two more in August, then six more before the end of the year, making a total of 15 reports this year. We intend to add ten in the first half of next year, so at the end we will have 25 reports, matching 25 years of “one country, two systems”. Here is the schedule of the review series, some having completed, some revised, some being planned: ...Read More
Published Reports (June 2022):
1) Government Officials (2022-06-07)
2) June Fourth (2022-06-14)
3) Ethnic Identity (2022-06-21)
Published Reports (July 2022):
4) Govt, PSI, handover, social indicators (2022-07-05)
5) Trust and Confidence (2022-07-12)
6) Social Conditions (2022-07-19)
7) Cross-strait political figures (2022-07-26)
Reports Pending (August 2022):
8) Feelings towards different governments and peoples
9) Freedom Indicators
Reports Pending (September to December 2022):
Reports No. 10-15
Reports Pending (January to June 2023):
Reports No. 16-25
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