Public Sentiment Index v2.0

Background information

In 2012, HKPORI compiled the “Public Sentiment Index (PSI)” with an aim to quantify Hong Kong people’s sentiments, in order to explain and predict the likelihood of mass movements. PSI comprises 2 components: one being Government Appraisal (GA) Score and the other being Society Appraisal (SA) Score. GA refers to people’s appraisal of society’s governance while SA refers to people’s appraisal of the social environment. PSI comprises 10 public opinion indicators, with data collected since July 1992, meaning over 30 years of accumulated data.

On June 28, 2023, HKPORI released the report entitled “25 Years of Public Sentiment Index”, as the final wrap up of our “One Country Two Systems 25-year Mid-tern Review”, which focused on the terms of four CEs between July 1997 and June 2022, meaning Tung Chee-hwa, Donald Tsang, CY Leung and Carrie Lam, but excluding Chris Patten and the incumbent CE John Lee. Then, in July 2023, HKPORI began to revisit and analyze the methodology and data used to construct PSI over the past 30 years or so, leading to the official launch of “PSI v2.0”. The “PSI Report No.6.1” meaning the first report covering the sixth top leader of Hong Kong was released on July 4, 2023. It not only adjusted the computation method of the PSI, but also extended its coverage to over 700,000 random telephone survey samples obtained through random telephone interviews over the past 31 years, starting from July 1992 and ending in June 2023. In our initial plan, there will be 12 modules under the “PSI v2.0 Analysis Series”, while the release cycle would roughly span over three to four months, then continuously repeats and updates.

Through this “PSI v2.0 Analysis Series”, HKPORI hopes to fully demonstrate the power and value of secondary data analysis, also to deepen our work in multi-media civic education.

Methodology of PSI

Basic Concepts

Computation Method

Handling of Missing Data and Revision of Computation Method

Understanding the Index Values

Press Releases

HKPORI releases “Municipal Solid Waste Charging” e-Deliberative Poll Research Report (2024-04-23)

HKPORI releases “PSI per Ethnic Identity” (2024-04-09)

HKPORI releases monthly PSI figures (2024-04-02)

HKPORI releases “PSI per housing type and ownership” (2024-03-12)

HKPORI releases “PSI per place of birth” (2024-03-05)

HKPORI releases Latest Online Survey Results and PSI Report, as well as a Briefing on Matters Related to the Budget and the Basic Law Article 23 Legislation (2024-02-28)

HKPORI releases “PSI per Gender” (2024-02-14)

HKPORI releases “PSI per Activeness in Civil Society” (2024-02-06)

HKPORI releases “PSI per Social Strata” (2024-01-30)

HKPORI releases “PSI per Political Camps” (2024-01-09)

HKPORI releases update on “Second Generation PSI” Series (2024-01-02)

HKPORI releases “Year-end Survey”, PSI Report No. 6.17, and also brief the press on its future development (2023-12-27)

HKPORI releases “PSI per Centrality” (2023-12-05)

HKPORI releases “PSI per economic activity status” (2023-11-14)

HKPORI releases “PSI per gender and age” (2023-11-07)

HKPORI releases the findings of Policy Address instant survey and people’s appraisal of news media together with the PSI Report No. 6.13 (2023-10-26)

HKPORI releases “PSI per Educational Attainment” (2023-10-17)

HKPORI releases “PSI per Age or Generation” (2023-10-10)

HKPORI releases “PSI per Ethnic Identity” (2023-10-03)

HKPORI releases “PSI per housing type and ownership” (2023-09-19)

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Aggregate Report

HKPORI PSI Report No. 6.28

HKPORI PSI Report No. 6.23

HKPORI PSI Report No. 6.17

HKPORI PSI Report No. 6.13

HKPORI PSI Report No. 6.6

Archived Website for Reference

Public Sentiment Index Feature Page