The Concept of election in Asian and Chinese communities
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To target the Asian or Chinese customers or markets, firstly we must know the concept and thought within Asian people’s mind, and realise the value of their cultural. To understand what they want and need will be much easy and effective for any further step on business or matter.
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The Election Research on Chinese market
We were appointed as Chinese Marketing and Chinese Advertising consultancy by an Asian candidate to win her seat on an election, therefore we would like to share our small survey for this campaign from which we could obviously know how to improve and gain, even to win the votes within the Asian communities in NZ.
There are 200 interviewees who come from China, HK, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia who can read and understand either simplified Chinese or traditional Chinese that participated in this survey.
Information we have collected on our questionnaire for this election in Auckland:
Q1: Are you qualified for voting in this year?
A. Yes / B. No (If the answer is no, then the survey is finished)
46 out of 198 (46/198) interviewees chose B which means they are not qualified for voting this year
152 out of 198 (152/198) are qualified voters (76.76%).
Q2: Do you know there was a local body?
A. Yes / B. No (If the answer is no, then the survey is finished)
28 out of 152 (28/152) qualified voters chose B and were not aware that a local body election happened (18.43%).
124/152 chose A and they were aware that there was a local body election (81.57%).
Q3: How did you know the election/voting message from Chinese media (One answer only)?
A. Chinese newspaper (please answer Q4) / B. Chinese magazine (please answer Q5)
C. Chinese radio (please answer Q6) / D. Chinese TV (please answer Q7)
E. Chinese website (please answer Q8) / F. Poster or billboard d(please answer Q9)
G. Receiving the voting letter from Election committee (please answer Q9) / H. None of above (please answer Q9)
I. Others____(please answer Q9)
20/124 knew from Chinese newspaper (16.12%).
4/124 knew from Chinese magazine (3.22%).
8/124 knew from Chinese radio (6.45%).
0/124 knew from Chinese TV (0%).
0/124 knew from Chinese website (0%).
36/124 knew from poster or billboard (29.03%).
11/124 knew from the directly voting mail from Election Committee (8.87%).
32/124 knew from other source, none of above source (25.80%).
13/124 knew from other source, such as from NZ Herald instead of from Chinese media, etc. (10.48%).
Q4: Which Chinese newspaper? (Finish this question and please answer Q9)
8/20 answered A, the Chinese Herald (40%) / 7/20 answered B, the Mandarin Times (35%)
5/20 answered G, the others (25%)
Q5: Which Chinese magazine? (Finish this question and please answer Q9)
4/4 answered C, the Most Wanted (100%)
Q6: Which Chinese radio? (Finish this question and please answer Q9)
8/8 answered B, AM936 (100%)
Q7: Which Chinese television? (Finish this question and please answer Q9)
None of qualified voters selected this Chinese media (0%).
Q8: Which Chinese website? (Finish this question and please answer Q9)
None of qualified voters selected this Chinese media (0%).
Q9: Did you register as a voter this time?
A. Yes / B. No (If answer is no, then please answer Q11)
111/124 answered A which means they have registered this time (89.51%).
13/124 answered B which means they did not register this time (10.49%).
Q10: Did you vote for this year?
A. Yes / B. No
59/111 answered A which those registered Chinese voted this time (53.15%).
52/111 answered B which means those registered Chinese did not vote this time (46.85%).
Q11: Did you see a hand-drawing ad for a female Chinese candidate with the headline “How many Chinese candidates are listed on your voting paper?”
A. Yes / B. No
30/111 answered on A (27.03%)
81/111 answered on B (72.97%)
This advertisement was designed and arranged by us and only appeared 4 times on a Chinese newspaper in the last week before the people received their voting papers.
Q12: Would you vote for the Chinese candidate if their names appear on the voting paper?
A. Yes / B. No / C. May be
60/111 answer A (54.06%)
3/111 answer B (2.70%)
48/111 answer C (43.24%)
And after our survey we found majority of the interviewers would like to change their answer from C to A.
Some more references here:
200 Chinese interviewees in total, 198 effective. (There were 2 faulty results therefore we removed these 2 questionnaires.)
Sample size might be small but is worth for reference.
All 12 questions have been modified a few times with testing groups and advices.
One to one survey for those questions where the answers given by each interviewee were correct and true.
The above data can be used with cross-analysis for more results. |