CityU announces findings of Hong Kong Consumer Satisfaction Index 2005
CityU-HKCSI, an example of the University’s applied research effort, is a performance indicator for
“Findings are based on more than 113,000 interviews with consumers conducted over the last nine years using a computer-assisted telephone interview system, involving more than 10,000 successful interviews every year,” said Dr Geoffrey Tso, an associate professor in MS.
Sixty-nine commodities and services were categorized into Clothing & Personal Care, Food & Drink, Housing & Related Items, Transport, Information & Entertainment and Non-Consumer Price Index (Non-CPI) Items. The categories, accounting for over 75% of the weightings in the
Dr Wu Minglu, a research fellow in MS, pointed out that with respect to the 69 major goods and services (please refer to Table 1) covered in the study, tunnels and paid television programmes experienced the greatest deterioration (-10.7% and -8.1%) in consumer satisfaction, resulting in low levels (60.8 and 61.6) of consumer satisfaction. Consumers were still most satisfied with music CDs (81.1), rice (77.9), jewellery (77.2), dairy products & non-alcoholic drinks (77.2) and edible oil (76.2), due to their high quality relative to consumers’ expectations.
Shopping in Shenzhen, entertainment in Shenzhen and job-seeking magazines experienced significant improvements (4.4%, 3.6% and 3.9%) in consumer satisfaction, although consumers were still dissatisfied (59.6, 66.1 and 61.3).
Regarding the six major product categories (please refer to Table 2) covered in the study, Hong Kong people are still most satisfied with Clothing & Personal Care (73.4), and consider these products to have the highest quality and most reasonable price relative to quality, followed by Transport (72.4) and Information & Entertainment (72.1), and then by Food & Drink (70.0) and Non-CPI Items (69.6).
Consumers were least satisfied with Housing & Related Items (66.7), but these products reported the greatest improvements in quality (4.5%), quality/price ratio (5.4%) and consumer satisfaction level (3.1%).