Government survey: Most singaporeans are positive about retirement and ageing

[h=1]GOVERNMENT SURVEY: MOST SINGAPOREANS ARE POSITIVE ABOUT RETIREMENT AND AGEING :kma:[/h]
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17 Oct 2014 - 5:24pm





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According to a recent Instituted of Policy Studies (IPS) Survey, on retirement and growing old, 80% of Singaporeans are confident that their needs will be taken care of in retirement.
The survey also found that most Singaporeans have a positive outlook about ageing.
IPS explained that this positive outlook was “quite remarkable” because generally, society favours the young.
The study was commissioned by the government funded Council for Third Age (C3A) and it took responses from over 2000 respondents aged 50 to 74 and living in three room flats or larger.
About 52% of respondents said that their financial adequacy for the future was good or excellent while the rest said it was poor or average.
70% of them said that they look forward to each new day and 60% said that they look back on their lives so far with happiness.



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While it is good that so many seniors have positive attitudes about ageing and retirement, the survey results sound much better than the reality.
Mainstream Media has been publishing the “great” results and highlighting how retirement prospects in Singapore are good, however they neglected to properly explain that the survey only took responses from better-off individuals.
When the survey did not consider those in 2 room flats or smaller it is unsurprising that most of the respondents feel positive about retirement.
What would the survey look like if it took responses from residents from poorer backgrounds too?

yeah 2000 "Specially selected" respondents. If they asked me and my kakis, that 80% would fall to 8%.

The numbers are nonsensical, 80% say their retirement needs are met, but 48% say their financial adequacy is average or poor.

Also a whopping 40% say they are not happy when they look back on their lives.

The government is still burying their heads in the sand if the believe in these surveys. They might as well stick to the bs they hear from their grassroots.

cardboard uncles are very considerate. they keep the bench clean by not farting on it. :p

[h=1]IPS SURVEY ON OUR ELDERLY: WHAT THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA DID NOT TELL YOU[/h]
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17 Oct 2014 - 10:48am





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We refer to the article “IPS study on ageing: 8 in 10 elderly confident their needs will be taken care of” (Straits Times, Oct 15).
It states that “The study, commissioned by the Council for Third Age (C3A), a government-funded group which promotes active ageing, covered more than 2,000 people between the ages of 50 and 74 years who lived in three-room Housing Board flats or larger housing units.”
1 and 2-room flats excluded?
- So, does it mean that about 20 if not a higher percentage of the elderly in Singapore, living in HDB 1 and 2-room flats were not covered in the study? In this connection, we believe a relatively higher proportion of the elderly live in 1 and 2-room flats, compared to their proportion in the population.
Half not “financially adequate”?
As to “The results showed that just over half the respondents rated their current (54 per cent) and future (52 per cent) financial adequacy as “good/very good/excellent”. The rest gave a “poor/below average/average” rating.”
- Does it mean that about half of the elderly are not “financially adequate”?
If we had included those in 1 and 2-room flats – will this figure balloon to more than at least 60%?
What the media did not report?
We would like to highlight the following, which were not reported in the media report:-
… 48.1% agreed that “There is a lack of suitable jobs to match my qualifications, experience or desired working arrangement”
… 68.0% of the (age 50 – 54) cohort agreed that potential employers preferred to hire younger workers (widespread age discrimination?)



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… 63.0% disagreed with the statement that “In general most elder Singaporeans have little to worry about”
… only 46.4% could name one person in their immediate social circle that they believe is a successful aging role model
… 59.4% had heard about older persons being discriminated against because of their age

S Y Lee and Leong Sze Hian

Haha! Wat a load of crap and shit. These are the surveys that makes
Sinkies Hate the Pappies to the CORE! Let hope they do more of such
surveys.

PAP Spin going to full spin.

WP should do their own survey in the heartlands ...publish this data during the election.

What I am more interested to know is if 60% still are happy with the PAP

This is going to determine the everyone's future especially if they will ever get their CPF

This shows once again what a good job the PAP is doing.

makapaaa said:

According to a recent Instituted of Policy Studies (IPS) Survey, on retirement and growing old, 80% of Singaporeans are confident that their needs will be taken care of in retirement. The survey also found that most Singaporeans have a positive outlook about ageing ...

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ah loon shud b proud n feel comforted ... dragon slayerz sword is blunted ...

But thats not being very considerate to the cardboards......have to do a deed poll and change their names to fartboards pretty soon

eatshitndie said:

cardboard uncles are very considerate. they keep the bench clean by not farting on it. :p

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