• Singapore Society in Numbers
  • Preface
    • Why I started this project
    • How to contribute
    • Acknowledgements
    • About me
  • I Datasets for Social Science
  • 1 Public Data
    • 1.1 Asian Barometer Survey (ABS)
    • 1.2 IPS Public Data
    • 1.3 Panel on Health and Ageing of Singaporean Elderly (PHASE)
    • 1.4 World Values Survey (WVS)
  • 2 Restricted Data
    • 2.1 Department of Statistics (DOS) Microdata
    • 2.2 Marriage and Parenthood Survey
    • 2.3 NVPC Individual/Corporate Giving Study
    • 2.4 National Youth Survey (NYS)
    • 2.5 Retirement and Health Study (RHS)
    • 2.6 Singapore Life Panel (SLP)
    • 2.7 Singapore Panel Study on Social Dynamics (SPSSD)
    • 2.8 Youth Survey on Transitions and Evolving Pathways in Singapore (Youth STEPS)
  • II Think Pieces
  • 3 Thinking about Numbers
    • 3.1 Links to external articles
  • III Case Studies
  • 4 Blown out of proportion
    • 4.1 Support for the Watain ban
    • 4.2 Web-savvy Seniors?
    • 4.3 Technical excursus
    • 4.4 Conclusion
    • 4.5 Additional reading
  • 5 Are we lonely?
    • 5.1 The lonely dichotomy
    • 5.2 Lonely by whose standard
    • 5.3 Same data, different results
    • 5.4 Conclusion
  • 6 Size is not all that matters
    • 6.1 But it’s too small!
    • 6.2 Size matters, but how so?
    • 6.3 Non-probability sample, now what
    • 6.4 Conclusion
  • 7 Measuring societal change
    • 7.1 Three ways to understand change
    • 7.2 Declines in marriage and divorce
      • 7.2.1 Evaluating explanation 1
      • 7.2.2 Evaluating explanation 2
    • 7.3 Living longer than you expect
    • 7.4 Conclusion
  • 8 You say; I say; Who confirm?
    • 8.1 SDP vs. MOM
    • 8.2 Really (just) golfing
    • 8.3 Conclusion
  • 9 Your case study
  • References
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Singapore Society in Numbers

3.1 Links to external articles

“Let us have data for breakfast together” on academia.sg is an appeal to government agencies to share data. By Shannon Ang.

“Data availability — how does it affect our theories on development?” is a reflection on data availability in Singapore and how it affects economic research. By Su Ying.