I didn’t read the poll questions except the analysis above, but is the survey asking respondance to give rating to the Transport system rather than public transport?

I agree with you that our public transport system [MRT & Buses] is pretty good compare to other countries but I could not said that if it refers to overall transport system.

Our roads are over-crowded, too many ERP, Cost to high etc. All these problems are caused by government policies of milking money from the public without planning ahead.

When Govt keep issuing more COE [ low COE price and more motor vehicles] than the road can take, promoting easy credit for car loan (7 to 10 years), then take the easy way to increase ERP charges when road congestion occured. This will definitely creates unhappiness and dissatisfaction because people are
con into believing his affortability to own a car and find out later that the running costs have increase.

Moreover, he find that he cannot sell the car to reduce his expenses because the realisable value of his car is not able to redeem his loan.

2. Besides, not all people in each income distribution is equal likely to participate in the survey.

But the scores are poor. This is probably due to over-crowding, due to the large increase in population. And maybe, the cost is high.

What are the reasons for the low score?

A response of 200 out of at least 4 million people is at most 0.005%. Having a sample whose income distribution matches the actual population distribution (assuming we know it) may eliminate bad surveys, but it is not good enough to make representative surveys. Response rate within each income group still too small.

Moreover, there is a sample bias since not all people in the population are equal likely to participate in surveys.

I am not trying to be too critical, but i have to say that having unrepresentative surveys may not be better than not doing survey at all.

Surveys on:
Active citizenship
Democracy
Budge 2009
An acfive Parliament

You can search for the surveys using the keyword “Survey”. You can also read the survey results

Jason @14 has a point there. Perhaps high time to reach-out to the ‘silent majority’ at the heartland – go door to door is the answer.

The so called leaders cannot simply tell the people go serve and defense spore, ask the young citizen to sacrifice for national service with a cheap labour rate.

Then ministars at same time help themselves with millions of tax payer money…

This is not lead by good example and sacrifice….. where is equality??

Who would want to serve with true spirit and care for the nation??

Don’t go. Stay and help to change the system. Encourage more people to come forward.

Can someone help me? Look at the statistics shown above and present them in charts. Send to me in a Word document. I will use these charts to make better impact.

I looking for opportunity to leave this place cause it will be too late after forty!

If you wish to participate, you can go to http://www.tankinlian.blogspot.com. Look at the right panel to see the ongoing survey.s

The survey does give a good indication of how the different categories of people (i.e young, old, higher income, lower income) feel about the above indicators. Although the participants are the internet savvy and English educated, I believe that the results do reflect the views of other people in similar age groups and income levels of the non-English educated.

It is the relative ratings that matter, and not the absolute ratings. I was somewhat surprised to read the results for the younger people, which were somewhat unexpected (i.e. they work longer and are not happy about their wages).

The ratings given by the lower income people are expected. They don’t like the wages and high cost of living.

The young / middle-income / English speaking bias are always there in internet / media surveys. More than just voicing out, it’s time for us to listen to the silent voices.

Active citizenship
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcqjz7c8_60dpxrxbgx

Democracy
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dcqjz7c8_613kmtb4gj

Please send your completed reports or charts to kinlian@gmail.com

Can you contact me at kinlian@gmail.com. I will pass you the raw data for the survey. You can help me to use the statistical analysis and to write the report. I am not a statistical expert and will welcome the help from one who is more knowledgeable.

Hi hansolo (#8)

Can you take the figures in my table and prepare the charts for me. You can put the charts in a Word document and mail it to me at kinlian@gmail.com. I have other reports and wish to have help from the experts who are good at preparing nice charts.

Mr Gilbert: “By treating Singapore as an economy” I think your meaning is that we are treated like an economic resource instead of a human being. In economics and policy-making, citizens = workers = economic resources. And they have so far been rather efficient in deploying economic resources. Our economic development and standard of living have been decent.

But that’s their view. We should enjoy ourselves thoroughly, without care for the views of the top.