Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Survey results
Purpose: This survey aims to find out how well the relationship between grandparents and their grandchildren is and how much time teenagers in Singapore (mainly secondary students) spend time with their grandparents. We have assessed 48 youths with their ages ranging from 12+ to 17.
Q1: Do you have grandparents?
Out of 48 youths surveyed, 81.25% (39 students) have answered “yes” while the remaining 18.75% (9 students) have answered no. This shows that a fairly large number of youths in Singapore do have grandparents.
Q2: Are your grandparents staying in an old folk’s home?
Surprisingly, our survey results show that none of the students with grandparents are staying in an old folk’s home. Therefore, 0% (0 students) have answered “yes” and 100% (39 students excluding students without grandparents) have answered “no”. This suggests that most grandparents in Singapore are not staying in an old folk’s home but either living independently or together with their family.
Q3: How often do you visit them (your grandparents)? (This only applies to those who answered “yes” in the previous question.
Since all 39 students (excluding students who do not have grandparents) have answered “no” for the previous question, this question is no applicable.
Q4: Do you live with your grandparents now, then? (This question is only applicable to students who answered “no” for question 3.)
Out of 39 students (excluding students who do not have grandparents), 18% (7 students) have answered “yes” and 82% (32 students) have answered “no”. From this result, we can infer that most grandparents in Singapore lives separately from their family.
Q5: How often do you visit your grandparents? (This question only applies to those who answered ‘no’ for the fourth question.
Out of 32 students (excluding students without grandparents and students who live with their grandparents), 15.625% (5 students) have answered “once a week”, 18.75% (6 students) have answered “once a month”, 25% (8 students) have answered “on special occasions, like Chinese New Year”, 0% (0 students) have answered “never” and 40.625% (13 students) have answered “others”. They have specified that they visit their grandparents during school holidays, fortnightly and yearly. This result shows us that students at least visit their grandparents at least once a year.
Q6: From the scale of 1 to 5, how would you rate your relationship with your grandparents?
Out of 39 students surveyed (excluding students without grandparents), 12% (5 students) have rated their relationship with their grandparents from 1 to 2, 48% (19 students) rated it 3 and 38% (15 students) rated it from 4 to 5. We can see from this result that the relationship between most of the grandparents and grandchildren in Singapore are neutral, as in not too bad and not too good.
In conclusion, most youths in Singapore have grandparents who do not live in an old folk’s home but instead live separately and they visit them at least once a year. The relationship between them is positive although more improvements could be done.
Labels: survey done by our group.
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