THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG - HONG KONG INSTITUTE OF ASIA-PACIFIC STUDIES

63.3% of the respondents answered that the chance of upward mobility for young people had worsened compared to 10 years ago. [...] The major findings are: 52.0% of the respondents to the survey said that Hong Kong currently did not provide enough chances for upward mobility for young people, while 32.7% answered “in-between” and only 10.7% said that there were enough chances. [...] 63.3% of the respondents said that the chance of upward mobility for young people had declined compared to 10 years ago, while 23.9% replied it was similar to ten years ago and only 9.1% said it had improved. [...] When the respondents were asked whether the chance of upward mobility for young people would be better in the next decade or beyond, 37.5% of them predicted that it would get worse, 32.5% predicted it would be similar to the current situation and 21.1% predicted it would be better. [...] The weighting of survey data was based on the probability of the respondents being selected via dual-frame sampling design and relevant age-sex distribution of the population published by the Census and Statistics Department.