Research objectives and research questions: the housing affordability HK case

Based on my desk research on housing affordability in Hong Kong, I come up with the following research objectives, research questions and research tasks:

Example 1: 

Research objective 1: to evaluate the differential impacts of the ongoing housing affordability to HK residents with different personal profiles, notably, home-owners vs non-home-owners, public housing residents and non-public-housing resident.

Research question 1: How does the current trend in Hong Kong housing affordability situation affect the experienced consequences by HK residents with different personal profiles?

Research task 1: to conduct semi-structured interviews with interviewees with different personal profiles on their perceptions about how the ongoing housing affordability situation in HK affect their economic well-being, social mobility and quality of residential life.

Example 2: 

Research objective 2a: to identify the perceived major economic drivers, e.g. the economic impact of covid-19 and the economic impact of the changing financial centre status of HK, of the contemporary economic impacts on the HK housing affordability situation.

Research objective 2b: to find out how the perceived major economic drivers are inter-related with each other and other indirect drivers, together, affect the present HK housing affordability situation.

Research questions:

Research question 2a: What are the economic drivers perceived to be major forces that affect the present HK housing affordability situation?

Research question 2b: What are the perceived explanations on how the economic drivers, individually and together, affect the contemporary HK housing affordability situation?

Research tasks: 

2a. to conduct a question survey via the social media platform to learn what HK residents consider to be the major economic drivers that affect the contemporary HK housing affordability situation.

2b. to conduct semi-structured interviews on HK residents with different personal profiles to learn how they understand the major economic drivers operate to influence the current HK housing affordability situation.

Lastly, it should be reminded that a hypothesis statement to be tested is also a kind of research question.