A STUDY ON SOCIAL CAPITAL IN SINGAPORE - -

Book excerpt: 1 A STUDY ON SOCIAL CAPITAL IN SINGAPORE By the Institute of Policy Studies, National University of Singapore Supported by the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth Research by Associate Professor Vincent Chua and Associate Professor Tan Ern Ser, of the Department of Sociology and Dr Gillian Koh, Deputy Director (Research) of the Institute of Policy Studies, all of the National University of Si. [...] The Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) of the National University of Singapore (NUS) conducted a survey of Singapore citizens and permanent residents called "A Study of Social Capital in Singapore" from January 2016 to October 2017. [...] Applying the appropriate weights for the profile of the population of Singapore residents on the key dimensions of ethnicity, resident status, and class, the data is generalisable to the resident population. [...] Why is diversity in relation to status groups low? After taking away the effect of the opportunity to interact because of uneven group sizes, this social closure may be the result of cultural factors - like the members of the one status group feeling a gulf with the other status group because of differences in the facility in the use of language (how they speak English for instance), types of soci. [...] By contrast, a perfectly-balanced network where the score is 1 on the IQV, is when the network comprises equal proportions of each attribute, e.g., half of the network comprises men and the other half comprises women.