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(3) “ Study o f Television Viewing by Educational A tta inmen t", which interviewed segments o f the population w ith (i) no edu cation, (ii) primary school education, (iii) secondary school edu cation and (iv) post-secondary education. Results o f this survey are now being tabulated. The Centre is currently conducting a “ Study o f Communication Patterns in Hong Kong" which entails interviews o f 3,000 Chinese residents and 500 non-Chinese residents and is expected to be completed by the summer o f 1970. Soc i al Research Centre The Social Survey Research Centre was established in February 1966 w ith a grant from the Ford Foundation. Invaluable advice and cooperation have been received from the Survey Research Center and the Center for Chinese Studies o f the University o f California at Berkeley in the subsequent development o f the Centre. The purposes o f the Centre were to provide research and training opportunities for students and staff, to conduct basic re search on the Hong Kong population, as well as overseas Chinese communities in South-East Asia and to meet the applied research needs o f the community. The Centre was also prepared to assist scholars in other countries who wish to conduct bonafide academic studies on Hong Kong. Sampling, interviewing, data-processing, and other methodo logical and technical resources were developed by the Centre in the course o f conducting several major studies: 1. The Hong Kong Urban Family Life Study - This first major basic social science study o f the Hong Kong population, sponsored by a grant from the Government Lotteries Fund to the Department o f Social Welfare and the Council o f Social Service, investigated the social welfare implications arising from the rapid industrialization and urbanization o f the com munity. Three separte monographs have been prepared: 1) Family Life in Urban Hong Kong 2) Pupil, Parent and School, A Hong Kong Study 3) Levels o f Emotional Strain in SoutheastAsian Cities, 2. Under a grant from the Ford Foundation to the Institute for International Studies o f the University o f California, Berkeley, the Urban Family Life Study was extended to Bangkok ， Singapore, Taipei, and the six major cities o f Western Ma lay sia. Selective attention in these studies was given to patterns and problems o f inter-group relations, as well as the concepts o f citizenship that are developing in the area. 43