Sometimes in Singapore, we will read some stories in the newspaper that caused some Singaporeans to scratch their head in disbelief. This happened to me when I read in the Strait Times that 85% of singles interviewed want to get married and 80% of married couples want to have two to three children.
Is this for real? Who did the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) interviewed for this survey? I give you that most young people I know think that they will get married one day, but most of them also don’t want to have children (especially the women). Where did they get the 80%? And this was before the credit crisis and the coming economic slowdown!
This is not to say that Baby Bonus, extended paid maternity leave are not good things, but I really doubt they are as influential as the Straits Times say they are. 80% of married couples want to have two to three children? Sorry, I’m still scratching my head on that one.
3 comments:
Please remember their current world ranking.
As always, they gave final numbers and there is no way to verify the data.
I will not even bother about it since the numbers are so incredible.
Same as what they mentioned months ago that only 10% of the hawkers increase their price.
I must be very unlucky that I always eat at those 10%.
YOU JUST CAN'T BELEIVE WHAT THEY SAID.
I think they forgot a 0 when they print the 10%
Post a Comment