Reappraising The Daily Express article: ‘Nearly 1 in 5 young Singaporeans wants to emigrate’
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NEWS ARTICLE CRITIQUE
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1NEWS ARTICLE CRITIQUE
Reappraising The Daily Express article: ‘Nearly 1 in 5 young Singaporeans wants to
emigrate’
In September 28, 2018, The Yahoo News published an article regarding a survey
related to the emigration of the population of the Singapore in the recent times. The report
claimed that nearly one on five of the Singaporeans among the age of 19 to 30 belonging
from the Republic wishes to emigrate while the others considers the chances or the
possibilities to emigrate within the upcoming years as per the survey analysis. The report
contained data from the findings of the survey that was furthermore released by the Institute
of Policy Studies or IPS. Carried out from the period of June to November 2016, more than
2000 eligible participant responded to the survey questions via the face to face interviews.
The article highlighted some of the key questions related to the emigration chances and the
attitudes of the young Singaporeans like the key predictors of the attitudes, the presence of
any clear archetypes of the young population of the Singapore and more. The overview of the
survey conducted for the research purpose included factors of demographics like age, gender,
level of education, income of the household and the status of the employment. The
corresponding variables of the survey analysis encircles around the social norms to the
emigration, the socio economic security from emigration, the ability towards the process and
the relative deprivation from the foreign talents. The article furthermore reveals some of the
key outcomes of the respondents regarding their intention to emigrate on permanent or for
better opportunities (The Straits Times 2018). According to the media release, factors like
family, friends, public health and safety are rooted in the minds of the people in the country
which projected the importance of the educational opportunities, medical care and the
political stability in the research survey. The article furthermore illustrated that 42.2 percent
have agreed towards being the permanent residents overseas while the remaining percentage
of people preferred being the active citizen of the Singapore.
Reappraising The Daily Express article: ‘Nearly 1 in 5 young Singaporeans wants to
emigrate’
In September 28, 2018, The Yahoo News published an article regarding a survey
related to the emigration of the population of the Singapore in the recent times. The report
claimed that nearly one on five of the Singaporeans among the age of 19 to 30 belonging
from the Republic wishes to emigrate while the others considers the chances or the
possibilities to emigrate within the upcoming years as per the survey analysis. The report
contained data from the findings of the survey that was furthermore released by the Institute
of Policy Studies or IPS. Carried out from the period of June to November 2016, more than
2000 eligible participant responded to the survey questions via the face to face interviews.
The article highlighted some of the key questions related to the emigration chances and the
attitudes of the young Singaporeans like the key predictors of the attitudes, the presence of
any clear archetypes of the young population of the Singapore and more. The overview of the
survey conducted for the research purpose included factors of demographics like age, gender,
level of education, income of the household and the status of the employment. The
corresponding variables of the survey analysis encircles around the social norms to the
emigration, the socio economic security from emigration, the ability towards the process and
the relative deprivation from the foreign talents. The article furthermore reveals some of the
key outcomes of the respondents regarding their intention to emigrate on permanent or for
better opportunities (The Straits Times 2018). According to the media release, factors like
family, friends, public health and safety are rooted in the minds of the people in the country
which projected the importance of the educational opportunities, medical care and the
political stability in the research survey. The article furthermore illustrated that 42.2 percent
have agreed towards being the permanent residents overseas while the remaining percentage
of people preferred being the active citizen of the Singapore.
2NEWS ARTICLE CRITIQUE
The IPS survey on the immigration attitudes targeted the following factors.
1. The National pride and the life satisfaction
The article revealed the improvements in the level of the national pride and the
satisfaction of life regarding the sufficiency of the jobs and the opportunities for the people in
the Singapore in the coming 10 years (The Online Citizen 2018). The survey illustrated that
more than 79.9% of the respondents preferred being the citizen of their home country, 77%
felt that their home country is a better place for permanent residence and 58% reported about
their confidence regarding the economic prospects and the GDP of Singapore.
2. The Cluster Analysis
The cluster analysis for the research was conducted and explained in the article for the
development of the archetypes of the youth population of Singapore depending on their
preferences and the attitudes of emigration (Nearly 1 in 5 Singaporeans want to emigrate:
survey 2018). In response to the survey conducted by IPS, and as stated by this article by
Yahoo news, four of the major cluster was furthermore generated in the label of disconnected
stayers among the range (n=637, 31.6%), the flourishing stayers ranging among (n=585,
29.1%) and the disconnected label (n=234, 11.6%) and finally the explorer (n=557, 27.7%).
Nicholas Walliman in his book Social Research Methods, illustrates the core areas related to
the social science research curriculum together with the summarization of the practical job of
the collection of the data or the information for the research study in the domain of
academically competent (Walliman 2015). His research methodology contradicts with the
illustration of the article in explanation which took the method of cluster sampling as the
primary base of detection of the level of the intention for emigration of the youth generation
of Singapore (Ziguras and Gribble 2015). The article furthermore explores on the moderate
and the high level of the subjectivity of the context of the wellbeing of the population
The IPS survey on the immigration attitudes targeted the following factors.
1. The National pride and the life satisfaction
The article revealed the improvements in the level of the national pride and the
satisfaction of life regarding the sufficiency of the jobs and the opportunities for the people in
the Singapore in the coming 10 years (The Online Citizen 2018). The survey illustrated that
more than 79.9% of the respondents preferred being the citizen of their home country, 77%
felt that their home country is a better place for permanent residence and 58% reported about
their confidence regarding the economic prospects and the GDP of Singapore.
2. The Cluster Analysis
The cluster analysis for the research was conducted and explained in the article for the
development of the archetypes of the youth population of Singapore depending on their
preferences and the attitudes of emigration (Nearly 1 in 5 Singaporeans want to emigrate:
survey 2018). In response to the survey conducted by IPS, and as stated by this article by
Yahoo news, four of the major cluster was furthermore generated in the label of disconnected
stayers among the range (n=637, 31.6%), the flourishing stayers ranging among (n=585,
29.1%) and the disconnected label (n=234, 11.6%) and finally the explorer (n=557, 27.7%).
Nicholas Walliman in his book Social Research Methods, illustrates the core areas related to
the social science research curriculum together with the summarization of the practical job of
the collection of the data or the information for the research study in the domain of
academically competent (Walliman 2015). His research methodology contradicts with the
illustration of the article in explanation which took the method of cluster sampling as the
primary base of detection of the level of the intention for emigration of the youth generation
of Singapore (Ziguras and Gribble 2015). The article furthermore explores on the moderate
and the high level of the subjectivity of the context of the wellbeing of the population
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