Hong Kong Diaspora Studies Initiative (HKDSI)
流散港人研究計劃

1 Demographic info of Hong Kong diaspora (Canada)

a. Hong Kong diaspora by citizenship and immigration status

Our Canadian sample yielded 550 completed responses. 21.6% of them have the citizenship status and thus are eligible to vote in Canada. A majority of the Canada sample (53.6%) are work or study visa holders.

Citizen and Immigration Status
StatusCountPercentage
Native born citizen264.7%
Naturalized citizen9316.9%
Permanent resident12222.2%
Work/student visa29553.6%
Aslyum seeking61.1%
Temporary visa81.5%
Total550100%

2. Party affiliation (Canada)

Generally speaking, which party do you identify with the most?

UK_PID

3. Intended vote choice for 2025 Federal election (Canada)

[For eligible voters] Which party do you think you will vote for the 2025 Federal Election?

[For non-eligible voters] If you are eligible to vote in the 2025 election, which party do you think you would vote for?

US election

4. Performance on various global issues (Canada)

Thinking about the US presidential election candidates, who do you think would be better in dealing with the following issues? (China policy, Climate policy, Global economy, Israel-Gaza conflict, Ukraine-Russian conflict)

performance

5. Attitude toward Western countries and Taiwan Relation (Canada)

If war were to erupt across the strait, do you think the US and other western nations will aid Taiwan by providing financial and humanitarian aid, providing military aids/weapons, and joining the war?

TW

6. Guilt toward protesters in HK (Canada)

Do you agree with the following statement regarding protesters who are still in Hong Kong:

guilt

7. Feeling toward various identities (Canada)

Please use a scale of 0-10 to rate your strength of different identities, with 10 indicating extremely strong, 0 indicating extremely weak, and 5 indicating half-half. How would you rate yourself? (Hongkonger, Chinese, Canadian):

The number indicates the median; the green bar shows 50% of respondents fall within this range; yellow bar is where 80% of response; the curve shows the distribution of the responses.

identity

8. Engagement of activities related to Hong Kong (Canada)

What activities have you engaged in supporting Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement in your host country in the past 12 months?

engagement