Ethnographic Interview Transcripts from Interviews with Residents of a Stilt House in Tai O Village – 2022 - Case 478523

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This data includes the full transcript of an interview conducted in Cantonese and Hakka/Hokla dialects, and the translation of the same into English. The content of the interview includes a semi-structured interview with one or members of a household living in a stilt house in Tai O Village, Hong Kong. The house is designated “Case 478523” in the research project record. Researchers collected this data by interviewing household residents for 30 minutes or more on topics related to their housing, housing satisfaction and/or affinity, and related topics. The data in this format of the transcript has been anonymized to remove all identifying information to prevent identification of the informant and connection of informants’ identities with sensitive information. The data provide household members’ testimony on their housing and related topics including personal and family history, Village history, and other topics. The data is available under embargo of one year to protect the personal information of household members, provided for purposes of scholarship on Tai O, stilt house communities, and/or topics related to housing. More detailed information on the dataset including thematic coding and summaries are available upon reviewed request. This dataset was collected through support of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) General Research Fund (GRF) Project 15600621.

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The data were collected by interviewing one or more members of households living in a stilt house in Tai O Village, Hong Kong. Informants were interviewed for upwards of 30 minutes in Cantonese and Hakka/Hokla dialects by native speakers. Interview audio was recorded and transcribed into Traditional Chinese text, then translated into English text. Reproduction of this data may be impossible in certain cases due to the death or relocation of informants.

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