Centre for the Advancement of Social Sciences Research was commissioned by the Civic Exchange to conduct a telephone survey regarding the knowledge and attitudes towards the Small House Policy (SHP) and rural land development in the New Territories. The telephone survey of around 1,200 Hong Kong citizens aged 18 or above was conducted between October 2014 and January 2015. There are two major groups of respondents. Around 600 respondents are the general public (non-indigenous Hong Kong residents who neither live in a village house nor are related to any rights-holding indigenous villager). The remaining 600 respondents are the small house interested persons, including (1) male indigenous villagers with the right to file a claim, or those who have already filed or exercised that claim; (2) people living with a family member who holds small house rights; (3) people with a family member living elsewhere or outside of Hong Kong who holds small house rights; and (4) non-indigenous people living in village houses. For more details of the findings and the results of the study, please visit the Civic Exchange website: http://civic-exchange.org/en/publications/166723600
(May 18, 2015)