PDF《香港特别行政区政府教育统筹局》

香港特别行政区政府教育统筹局 家庭与学校合作事宜委员会 顾问报告 (行政摘要) 香港理工大学 应用社会科学系 社会政策研究中心 策划及执行 二零零五年三月 家长工作时间与亲子关系调查 C 顾问研究报告 2.

Executive Summary Research Background 2.1 The Committee on Home-School Cooperation of the Education and Manpower Bureau, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region commissioned the Hong Kong Polytechnic Technology &

Consultancy Company Limited, executed by the Centre for Social Policy Studies, to conduct the Survey on Parent'

s Working Hour and Parent-Child Relationship in February 2005. 2.2 The survey objectives are to gauge the opinions of parents with primary school age children on: - their working pattern, - how they spend time with their children, - how they use their holidays, - the methods they used to protect the parent-child relationship, - their self-evaluation on parent-child relationship, and - their expectations on school and employers to do something about their working hours to promote parent-child relationship. 2.3 The survey was conducted from

21 to

24 February

2005 by the method of telephone interview. It covered those households with residential telephone line in Hong Kong, and those with primary school age children.

511 effective cases were collected with 66.0% cooperation rate, the margin of error was +/- 4.34% (with 95% confidence level). Demographic Background 2.4 64.0% of the respondents were females and 36.0% were males. Among them, 32.3% were working mothers, 32.3% were non-working mothers, 31.5% were working fathers, and 3.8% were non-working fathers. 2.5 46.5% of the respondents had

4 household members (including the respondents), 23.1% had

3 members. 77.4% had only one primary school age children, and 20.2% of the primary school age child were primary

2 students. 2.6 40.6% of the respondents aged 31-40, 45.7% aged 41-50. Besides, 97.1% of the respondents were married. 香港理工大学社会政策研究中心 家长工作时间与亲子关系调查 C 顾问研究报告 2.7 42.2% of the respondents had secondary (F4-5) education attainment, and the education level of husbands of female respondents (mothers) was slightly higher, and which was significant, at the tertiary level. 2.8 52.3% of the respondents said that they were belonging to middle class, 41.3% said that they were belonging to low-income family. 38.3% of the respondents said that they were living in the self-owned private flat and 33.0% in rented public housing. Among those working respondents, 53.0% were working in clerical, service and shop sales occupations (male 17.4%, female 35.6%). Survey Result Parents'

Working Hour 2.9 On the aspect of parents'

working hour, for those working respondents, 43.8% said that they worked for 41-50 hours per week in average, 20.0% said 51-60 hours. Among them, fathers were more likely to work over

50 hours per week in average, mothers were more likely to work less than

40 hours per week in average. 77.6% of the respondents said that their jobs were full time, 22.4% said that their jobs were temporary in nature, but most of them (86.2%) said that they did not need to work on shift duty. Length of time spent with children on an average day 2.10 On the aspect of how the parents spent time with their children on an average day, fathers spent 3.42 hours per day in average with their youngest primary school age children, and mothers spent 8.37 hours per day in average. Survey found that those working and with higher education level mothers were more likely to spend less than