Using a dual-frame design to improve phone surveys on political attitudes: developing a weighting strategy for limited external information in Hong Kong

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Tze-wai Wong ◽  
Victor Zheng ◽  
Po-san Wan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
External Information ◽  
Dual Frame ◽  
Frame Design ◽  
Weighting Strategy

The Changing Political Attitudes of the Senior Bureaucrats in Hong Kong's Transition

1996 ◽  
Vol 147 ◽  
pp. 912-937 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Y. S. Cheng ◽  
Jane C. Y. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
The Political ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Joint Declaration ◽  
Proper Balance

The empirical study of bureaucrats in the Hong Kong government, particularly in their relationship with politicians in the legislature, is a relatively new subject of academic interest. This effort at systematic research is related to the fact that both senior civil servants and politicians are essential to effective government. While senior civil servants in Hong Kong have dominated the political process in the territory for 150 years, politicians have gained importance since the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Britain signed the Joint Declaration on the future of Hong Kong in 1984. It follows that the relationships between these two leadership groups are of great interest, theoretically, empirically, practically and politically. The key problem of any government is how these elite groups interact. A major concern is maintaining an efficient and able bureaucracy with enough independence to do an effective job of administration, while operating in a political context in which politicians are competitive and accountable to the electorate, reacting to the constant demands and expectations of special and general interests. The maintenance of a proper balance between efficiency and responsiveness in such an environment has to be achieved if the polity is to function effectively and be stable

A dual frame design for sampling elderly minorities and persons with disabilities

1995 ◽  
Vol 14 (5-7) ◽  
pp. 571-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trena M. Ezzati ◽  
Keith Hoffman ◽  
David R. Judkins ◽  
James T. Massey ◽  
Thomas F. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Dual Frame ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Frame Design

Effects of using an Overlapping Dual-Frame Design on Estimates of Health Behaviors: A French General Population Telephone Survey

2016 ◽  
pp. smw028 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Baptiste Richard ◽  
Raphaël Andler ◽  
Arnaud Gautier ◽  
Romain Guignard ◽  
Christophe Leon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Health Behaviors ◽  
Telephone Survey ◽  
Dual Frame ◽  
Frame Design

scholarly journals Factors Associated With Mental Health Symptoms During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hong Kong

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheng Zhi Zhao ◽  
Tzu Tsun Luk ◽  
Yongda Wu ◽  
Xue Weng ◽  
Janet Yuen Ha Wong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Population Distribution ◽  
Drinking Behavior ◽  
Dual Frame ◽  
Mental Health Symptoms ◽  
Health Symptoms ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Negative Perceptions

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increasing mental health burden. We examined the factors associated with mental health symptoms in Chinese general adults in Hong Kong.Methods: We conducted a dual-frame (landline and mobile) survey on Chinese adults aged 18 years or older in April 2020. Shortage of preventive materials, perceptions of the outbreak (each item range 1–5), and reduction in income were assessed. Mental health symptoms measured included stress (Perceived Stress Scale-4, range 0–16), anxiety (General Anxiety Disorders-2, range 0–6, cutoff >2), and depressive symptoms (Patient Health Questionnaire-2, range 0–6, cutoff >2). Results were weighted by the general population distribution. Associations were analyzed by multivariable linear (for stress) and logistic (for anxiety and depressive symptoms) regression adjusting for sociodemographic and health-related covariates, including confirmed or in close contacts of confirmed cases, chronic disease, self-rated health, and smoking and alcohol drinking behavior.Results: Of the 1,501 participants (52.5% female, 55.0 aged 30–59 years), the average stress score was 7.20 (SD 2.12). 218 (15.8%) and 206 (14.8%) participants had anxiety and depressive symptoms, respectively. Shortage in facemasks (20.8%), alcohol-based hand sanitizers (13.9%), and cleaning products (7.3%) was reported. Participants generally disagree with the perception of at risk of getting infected in the coming 6 months (mean 2.2, SD 1.1), but tended to agree with the perception of worry that the people around pose a threat to them (mean 3.6, SD 0.9) and the outbreak has greatly affected their daily life (mean 3.7, SD 0.9). 59.3% employed participants had income reduction and 6.2% had become unemployed since the outbreak. Stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms were more prevalent in those with shortages of preventive materials and negative perceptions of the outbreak (all P < 0.05). Reduction in income and unemployment were associated with more mental health symptoms (all P < 0.05).Conclusions: Shortage of preventive materials, negative perceptions, financial loss, and unemployment were prevalent during the outbreak and found in association with higher stress and more anxiety and depressive symptoms. Further research and urgent actions are warranted to relieve stress and promote mental health, targeting the many risk factors identified by our study.

scholarly journals A new design and a weighting strategy of a survey on tourist activity of the Croatian population

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-54
Author(s):  
Lidija Gligorova ◽  
Marijana Kožul
Keyword(s):  
Survey Design ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Dual Frame ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Call Centre ◽  
Sampling Frame ◽  
Phone Book ◽  
Survey Population ◽  
Weighting Strategy ◽  
Survey Estimates

Abstract Until 2014, the sample for the statistical survey Tourist Activity of the Population of the Republic of Croatia, shortly named as TADS, was a quota sample. The sample selection and the data collection for the survey in the Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI) mode were conducted by a hired marketing research agency. In the summer of 2014, the Croatian Bureau of Statistics (CBS) set up its own call centre for CATI surveys. At the beginning of 2015, the CBS started developing a new probability sample design and a weighting strategy of TADS. The surveys of all the four quarters of 2015, fully conducted by the CBS, were treated as test surveys. The purpose of this paper is to describe and evaluate the finally accepted overlapping dual-frame survey design and a weighting procedure based on the sample data collected in all the quarters of 2015. The paper shows how the new design is incorporated in the existing circumstances in which surveys are conducted. The overlapping dual-frame survey design of TADS produces survey estimates related to the whole survey population based on two independent samples from two overlapping sampling frames (the first sampling frame consists of landline phone numbers from the phone book and the second one consists of mobile phone numbers from the phone book). In spite of a large undercoverage of the survey population in the phone book, using both phone types in TADS improves the total coverage of the survey population and relieves a problem of coverage and response bias. The applied weighting procedure is described systematically. The probability sampling allows calculating quality indicators such as standard errors of survey estimates and helps optimizing the survey process.

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