(初版:2006年7月11日新聞公報之附加資料) Would HKUPOP conduct popularity surveys on Anson Chan and Regina Ip? The general practice of HKUPOP is to begin monitoring the popularity of government officials once they are appointed and stop once they leave office. This applies to Chris Patten, CH Tung, Anson Chan and Regina Ip. Nevertheless, counting on POP tracking surveys alone, these people may be included in our surveys via the following channels: Be included in our regular surveys of cross-strait political figures if they have become national leaders, and if they are popular enough according to our nomination surveys; Become councillors and be included in our regular surveys of various kinds of councillors; Become popular enough to be included in our regular survey of local political figures; Be included in our election surveys because they may participate in certain elections, including the election of the Chief Executive. These surveys, however, are much less frequent and shallow compared to our regular surveys of incumbent government officials. They are therefore of less study value. It should be pointed out, however, that POP may be commissioned any time to study the popularity of these public figures, according to our prescribed service policy. In all such projects, we require full autonomy and independence in their design and operation, and we would release our findings for public consumption upon completion of the projects. (First release: Supplementary section of our press release of 11 July 2006)
以下介紹有關各局長調查的發展:
民研計劃所進行的「主要官員民望」調查,所有結果都在《民意網站》向外公佈。 (初版:2007年1月16日新聞公報之附加資料) Popularity survey of principal officials under the accountability system In advanced democratic countries, the popularity of their principal officials is the crux of all opinion polls. Although the accountability system of the HKSAR Government was established in July 2002, HKUPOP has measured the ratings of the three Secretaries of Departments since January 2001, and then for all the Directors of Bureaux since June 2002. In September 2002, we also started to conduct surveys on the support rate of all principal officials, and to measure and release the popularity of our principal officials as frequently as we could, using our limited resources. First of all, we look at the development of the survey for Secretaries of Departments.
The development of the survey for Directors of Bureaux is as follows:
All the findings from our surveys on "popularity of principal officials" have been released online through our HKU POP Site. (First release: Supplementary section of our press release of 16 January 2007)