Kwan Ying Keung

Office: HJ633

Tel: 27666962

Fax: 23629045

Email: maykkwan@inet.polyu.edu.hk

Education

1969-72           Undergraduate student at Hong Kong University, awarded B.Soc.Sc. Degree in Statistics and Sociology.

1974-75 Graduate student at London School of Economics, London University,  

                         awarded M.Sc. in demography.

1978-79 Supported by a no-paid leave and a Population Council (New York) Fellowship as Research student at London School of Economics, awarded M.Phil. in demography.

1984-85           Supported by a sabbatical leave as a graduate student at Monash University, awarded Graduate Diploma in Operational Research.

Subjects Taught

Main areas of teaching duties are survey sampling, basic and inferential statistics, social and economic statistics, project supervision and case studies at degree and higher diploma level.

Publications

YK Kwan (1979). ¡¥Fertility Decline in Hong Kong, 1940-1976, with Special Reference to Socioeconomic Differentials¡¦, M.Phil thesis, London School of Economics, London University.

WC Ip, YK Kwan, GTY Pong (1995). ¡¥A Health Status Indicator for Chinese Elderly in Hong Kong¡¦, International Journal of Biomedical Computing 40:133-137.

YK Kwan and WC Ip (1996). ¡¥Perceived Health Status of Hong Kong Elderly and Its Determinants¡¦, Hong Kong Journal of Gerontology 10/2:29-34.

Choi W.C. and YK Kwan (1998), ¡¥A Statistical Analysis on the Share Price of the China Light¡¦, Hong Kong Economic Journal Monthly, 259/10: 103-106.

YK Kwan, P.Y.K. Kwan and W.C. Ip (1998), ¡¥Determination of Weights for a Crime Index¡¦   Bulletin of Hong Kong Statistical Society, 20/410-14. 

YK Kwan, P.Y.K. Kwan and W.C. Ip (1998), ¡¥Calibration of Perceived

Seriousness    of Crime¡¦   Technical Report, preprint no. 010298,

Department of Applied Mathematics, PolyU.

WC Ip, YK Kwan, GTY Pong and M Trout (1999). ¡¥Development and Demonstration of a Hierarchical Health Status Instrument for the Elderly¡¦, Journal of Social Service Research 25/4:43-56.

YK Kwan P Kwan and WC Ip (1999), ¡¥Quantitative Measure of the Level of Public Order in Hong Kong¡¦, Bulletin of Hong Kong Statistical Society, 22/1:21-22.

YK Kwan, WC Ip and P Kwan (2000). ¡¥A Crime Index with Thurstone¡¦s Scaling of Crime Severity¡¦, Journal of Criminal Justice 28:237-244..

YK Kwan, LL Chiu, WC Ip and P Kwan (2002). ¡¥Perceived crime seriousness: consensus and disparity¡¦, Journal of Criminal Justice 30/6:623-632.

W.C. Ip, Ying Yang, Zhi Geng and Y.K. Kwan (2003). 'Nonparametric Estimation of varying coefficient models with binomial longitudinal large strata data' Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics 11/ 2: 85-111.

WC Ip, YK Kwan, P Kwan and Y Yang (2003). ¡¥Strong convergence rate of the least median absolute estimator in linear regression models¡¦, Statistical Papers* 44/2:169-182.

Ying Yang, WC Ip, YK Kwan and P Kwan (2004). ¡¥Local Median Estimation of Variance Function¡¦, Mathematica Acta Scientia 24B(1):28-38.

WC Ip, LL Chiu and YK Kwan (2004). ¡¥Construction of health indices using paired comparisons¡¦, Social Indicators Research 67:353-373.

YK Kwan, WC Ip and P Kwan (2005). ¡¥Gender differences in suicide risk by socio-demographic factors in Hong Kong¡¦, Death Studies. 29:645-663.

YK Kwan and WC Ip (2007). ¡¥Suicidality and Migration among Adolescents in Hong Kong¡¦, Death Studies. 31:45-66.

YK Kwan (in press). ¡¥Family Structure and Life Satisfaction among Adolescents in Hong Kong¡¦, Social Indicators Research.

Current Research

Current research and related papers to be submitted to journals for publication:

1. Mortality and migration among adults in Hong Kong.

2. Self-assessed health status and migration among adolescents in Hong Kong.

3. Life satisfaction and migration among adolescents in Hong Kong.

Awards

Population Council Fellowship, a scholarship awarded by the Population Council, New York for the one-year research at London School of Economics, 1978/79.

Consultancy Undertaken :

As an active member of the Statistical Advisory Unit of the AMA, have conducted the following projects:

1996-97

¡¥Opinions of users and non-users of the museum services¡¦, bid successfully for a public tender, and commissioned by the Provisional Urban Council. We conducted a large-scale opinion survey with a sample size of five thousand by telephone interview and personal interview to gauge customer satisfaction and opinions on the four museums run by the Provisional Urban Council.

1999 ¡¥Market research on the market trend of mobile phones¡¦, commissioned by the Motorola Asia Pacific Limited to assess customers¡¦ opinions on displays of Motorola mobile phones at retail shops.

2000 ¡¥Thematic Household Survey¡¦, commissioned by the Census and Statistics

Department, the government of the HKSAR. It was conducted jointly with the MVA, an international consultancy firm. We were responsible for the sampling design and analysis of data.

2001-02

            ¡¥The Energy Consumption Project¡¦, commissioned by the Energy Board of the government of the HKSAR (jointly with the MVA). We were responsible for the sampling design and building up models for energy (electricity and gas) consumption in Hong Kong.                             

¡¥General-teaching room requirement projection¡¦, a project of the Space Allocation and Minor Works Committee (SAMWC) chaired by Professor Ko and commissioned by the President Office of the PolyU. We modelled the GT room requirement and made suggestions to the management of the PolyU.

¡¥Facilities Allocation and Utilization Management¡¦ a project of the President Office of the PolyU, chaired by Professor Ko. We participated in a workshop, wrote a report and presented it to the Management Committee of the PolyU.

¡¥Design and implementation of student feedback evaluation system¡¦ commissioned by the School of Professional Education and Executive Development (SPEED).

¡¥Colleague Feedback Survey ¡¥ commissioned by the SPEED.

Design and implementation of student feedback evaluation system¡¦, commissioned by the Institute for Enterprise (IfE).

2002-04

¡¥Overall Study on Reviewing the Progress and Evaluating the Information Technology in Education (ITEd) Projects 1998/2003¡¦, commissioned by the Education Department, HKSAR. It was a large-scaled survey to assess the use of IT in secondary schools. I was responsible for the sampling design of the survey.

¡¥Energy Consumption Factorization and Projection for Hong Kong¡¦, commissioned by the Energy Board of the HKSAR (jointly with the MVA). We designed the sample for the survey and built up models from the data collected.

¡¥Statistical advice on the legal case of Hugo Boss¡¦ as requested by Eccles & Lee, a legal firm.

¡¥Statistical Analysis for the Coverage of Service by Galaxy Satellite Broadcasting Limited via Direct-To-Home System¡¦, commissioned by the Galaxy Satellite Broadcasting Limited. We designed and conducted a survey to assess the coverage rate of the Galaxy Satellite among the village houses, bungalows, etc. in Hong Kong.

2005-06

            ¡¥Student Development Task and Lifestyle Assessment (SDTLA) Study¡¦

             commissioned by the Student Affairs Office, the Polytechnic University. We

             conducted the survey, analysed the data and wrote a report for the SAO.

¡¥2006 Performance Pledge Survey on the university health service, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University¡¦, commissioned by the University Health Service of the PolyU. We conducted the survey, analyzed the data and wrote a report to assess the performance pledge of the university health service.

¡¥Employee Survey 2006¡¦ commissioned by the Hong Kong Housing Society. We analysed the data collect by the Hong Kong Housing Society and wrote a report on the employee¡¦s opinions concerning the management of the Housing Society.

¡¥Knowledge of and Attitude towards law among adolescents in Hong Kong¡¦, commissioned by the Law Society of Hong Kong. We conducted a large-scale survey to gauge secondary school students¡¦ knowledge and attitude.

Professional Service

1993-present

Member of the Hong Kong Statistical Society.

1994-95

Associate editor and article contributor of the Bulletin, Hong Kong Statistics Society.

1995-96

Editor and article contributor of the Bulletin of Hong Kong Statistics Society.

2002

Member and Treasurer of the organizing committee of the International Conference of Applied Statistics, Actuarial Sciences and Financial Mathematics 2002, a joint venture of AMA of PolyU and the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences of HKU.