Tag Archives: Statistics

I was tagged by Yeoh Lam Keong to a facebook photo which quoted Lee Kuan Yew in 2010- “In five years, you will have 120,000 work-permit holders .. in 10 years, a quarter million. Is it bearable?

It states that “A fairly high proportion of about 6 per cent of Singapore citizens also live overseas, he noted. The number of Singaporeans residing abroad has climbed 24 per cent in the past 10 years. The latest population statistics show 213,400 Singaporeans lived overseas last year, compared with 172,000 in 2007. Since the 213,400 are “Singaporeans with a registered foreign address” – does it mean that those who have kept their local address are not counted?

I refer to the article “Reliability of North-South and Circle MRT Lines improves; East-West Line maintains same standard” (Straits Times, Apr 24). It states that “In the year ending Q1, the NSL clocked an average of 180,000km before a delay lasting more than 5 mins, bettering the 156,000km registered in the year ending Q4, 2016.”

I refer to the Corporate Communications, Ministry of Finance’s reply “Govt more open in sharing data” (Straits Times, Dec 15) to the article ”S’pore can afford to be more open in sharing data” (Dec 11) by Asit K. Biswas and Kris Hartley.

I received in the mail today – an 86 page booklet “With You For You For Singapore“. On page 9, it states that “We expanded social safety nets, We shared the fruits of our economic growth, redistributed surpluses and used income from investing our reserves to help Singaporeans. Why can’t the ComCare annual report just disclose the average amount of monthly financial assistance per household? Looking at the above statistics – do you agree with “With You For You For Singapore”?

What statistics say about the 60.1% of Singaporeans who voted PAP and what they want from Singapore in the future.

Despite being confronted by Mr Giam’s questions in Parliament, Minister Lim chose to continue to evade giving any direct replies. The Minister can avoid answering just one question on the breakdown of the retrenched residents. Can he possibly avoid answering altogether the following six questions on the labour statistics? In the unlikely event that the Minister cannot answer all six questions at all – then what answer to you think Singaporeans may like to give to him?