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EPA Survey

Topic: What should the government do towards the weight of students’ schoolbags?

Foreword: In Hong Kong, a heavy schoolbag is very common. A lot of students even suffer from spine problems because of this matter. Why are they overweight and what should be done? Should the HK government do something about this problem? Or let these students continue to suffer? As some of the victims of this problem, we decided to investigate this matter.

1.What is your age group?

10 years old or under

11 – 15 years old

16 – 20 years

21 years old or above

2.Current Education Level

Primary or below

Secondary

University

3.On average, is your schoolbag heavy? (Or, do you think students’ schoolbags are heavy?)

Yes

b. No

4.Did you know heavy schoolbags can cause spinal problems?

Yes

No

5.What do you think is the best way to solve this problem?

Replacing textbooks with e-books

Leaving all textbooks at school

Not using textbooks for teaching

Using different schoolbags

Others

6.Do you know any people who have spinal problems because of heavy schoolbags?

Yes

No

7.From the answer of Question 6, how many people do you know suffer from this problem?

1-2

3-6

7-9

More than 10

8.Do you think that this is a very serious problem in Hong Kong?

Yes, it is very serious

Yes, it is quite serious

No, it is not too serious

No, it is not serious at all.

9.If you answered no in Question. 3, how did you control the weight of your schoolbag?

Lockers

School uses e-books’

I use different schoolbags

I don’t bring my books to school

Others

10.What do you think should be the ideal weight of a student’s schoolbag?

Less than 1kg

1-3kg

4-7kg

More than 8kg

11.Do you think that the government has done enough to solve this problem?

Yes

No

Not that I know of

12.Before doing this survey, did you know the seriousness of the weight of students’ schoolbags?

Yes

No

13.Referring to Question 12, after doing this survey, are you more concerned about this problem?

Yes

No

Thank you for doing our survey.

End of survey