Hong Kong Social Issues

Social Research, Year 1, Individual commentary (commentary 2)

Chen ZhuKuang Kay 20026379

Introduction

Nowadays, the problem of the aging population has become increasingly serious in Hong Kong. According to the report published by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2012, about 18.2 percent of Hong Kong's population is now over sixty years old, and until 2036, the elderly population will become more than 31 percent. However, in such a grim situation, the Hong Kong Government has a serious shortage of housing policy for the elderly, for example, about the elderly living in temporary housing, according to the Housing Society's report, more than 10,000 elderly people live in temporary housing, It can be seen that the problem of the elderly

In the section on literature review, this report is very well written, because it is done in great detail, and it has collected and analyzed some information about Hong Kong and different countries' policies on housing for the elderly, and it has made a detailed comparison between them. For the literature review, this is done quite well, according to Caulley (1992), the literature review should sum up the contents of different literature, and compare the views of different stakeholders on the same issue, we can see that this report are perfect to carry out the above-said

The report mentions that the interviewer asked the elderly about their size, facility of the house, The type of housing preferences, and more inclined to buy or rent, there is no doubt that this is the type of opinion question. In addition, the type of question used in the questionnaire is closed-ended questions, since we can see the attachment of the report that almost all of its problems are chosen from the answers given in advance, which are obviously closed-ended questions. In this section, the researchers are doing pretty well, but they can do better, for example, while they use the closing-ended questions, they can use the open-ended questions too, besides, they can asking for different types of questions, such as the attitued questions and so on.

To conclude, this report is doing well in this section, but there is still room for improvement, such as the questioning should be more diversified.

Conclusion

In conclusion, this report on the housing problem of the elderly is done quite well in different parts, such as in the literature review section, the data collection and comparative analysis part are done very well, its looks quite detailed and clear. But at the same time, some of the parts of the report still have somewhat inadequate, for example, in the research methodology part, when the questionnaire