Respondent 1
Name: Madam Mok
Gender: Female
Married Status: Married
Number of children: 1
Education level: High
Race: Chinese
Age Married: ???
Q1.How many children do you want to have?
She answered: 3
Q2.Why do you think people in Singapore are not giving birth?
She answered: I think it could be due to the high cost in Singapore. There is not enough space(cannot afford a bigger house).
Q3.Do you agree that the government give more money to make people give birth more? Why?
She answered: No is don't think so. Money is not only the essential point in having more babies, people also require time to bring up children.
Q4.Why you think that the government is worry about having a low birth rate?
She answered:Yes definitely. Singapore have no natural resources.
Q5.Do you agree with the current government's giving birth bonus at this time? Why?
She answered:Yes, the bonus is enough for mothers.
Respondent 2
Name: Madam They
Gender: Female
Married Status: Married
Number of children: 1
Education level: Medium
Race: Chinese
Age Married: 24
Q1.How many children do you want to have?
She answered: 1
Q2.Why do you think people in Singapore are not giving birth?
She answered: Because to support a child is not easy.
Q3.Do you agree that the government give more money to make people give birth more? Why?
She answered: No. It is not easy to educate a child.
Q4.Why you think that the government is worry about having a low birth rate?
She answered: It is because of the dropping of the population.
Q5.Do you agree with the current government's giving birth bonus at this time? Why?
She answered: No. Because the bonus not attractive enough.
Respondent 3
Name: Mdam Tay
Gender: Female
Married Status: Married
Number of children: 2
Education level: High
Race: Chinese
Age Married: 26
Q1.How many children do you want to have?
She answered: 2
Q2.Why do you think people in Singapore are not given birth?
She answered: In my opinion, they think that it is wasting money on resources like milk which is very expensive and they want to decrease the labour.
Q3. Do you agree that the government give more money to make people give birth more? Why?
She answered: Yes. They the parents want to have more babies to increase the birth in Singapore.
Q4.Why you think that the government is worry about having a low birth rate?
She answered: They will think that it will be a waste of resources.
Q5.Do you agree with the current government's giving birth bonus at this time? Why?
She answered: Yes as it is now a critical time.
Respondent 4
Name: Miss Yeo
Gender: Female
Married Status: Single
Number of children: 0
Education level: Medium
Race: Chinese
Age Married: -Nil-
Q1.How many children do you want to have?
She answered: 2
Q2.Why do you think people in Singapore are not giving birth?
She answered: Economic crisis, high standard of living, career minded.
Q3.Do you agree that the government give more money to make people give birth more? Why?
She answered: Yes, to encourage more people to have children to increase population.
Q4.Why you think that the government is worry about having a low birth rate?
She answered: Singapore is a aging population.
Q5.Do you agree with the current government's giving birth bonus at this time? Why?
She answered: Yes, but the baby bonus does not help much in the long run in economic crisis period.
Respondent 5
Name: Madam Cheong
Gender: Female
Married Status: Married
Number of children: 2
Education level: High
Race: Chinese
Age Married: 26
Q1.How many children do you want to have?
She answered: 2
Q2.Why do you think people in Singapore are not giving birth?
She answered: Too stressful.
Q3.Do you agree that the government give more money to make people give birth more? Why?
She answered: No. Monetary awards can only relieve the financial issues related to birth but other factors such as child's development, family environment can't be addressed with government subsidies.
Q4.Why you think that the government is worry about having a low birth rate?
She answered: Of course. Singapore has no natural resources and low birth rate is not able to maintain the economic growth and Spore GDP.
Q5.Do you agree with the current government's giving birth bonus at this time? Why?
She answered: No comment as the birth bonus is not applicable to me.
Respondent 6
Name: Madam Lim
Gender: Female
Married Status: Married
Number of children: 3
Education level: High
Race: Chinese
Age Married: 25
Q1.How many children do you want to have?
She answered: 3
Q2.Why do you think people in Singapore are not giving birth?
She answered: Wasting of money.
Q3.Do you agree that the government give more money to make people give birth more? Why?
She answered: No. Sorry, no idea.
Q4.Why you think that the government is worry about having a low birth rate?
She answered: Yes.
Q5.Do you agree with the current government's giving birth bonus at this time? Why?
She answered: No comment about it.
Respondent 7
Name:Madam Lam
Gender: Female
Married Status: Married
Number of children: 3
Education level: High
Race: Chinese
Age Married: 23
Q1.How many children do you want to have?
She answered: 3
Q2.Why do you think people in Singapore are not giving birth?
She answered: It will need a lot of money to raise their children up.
Q3.Do you agree that the government give more money to make people give birth more? Why?
She answered: Yes, since people are not giving birth due to lack of money, if the government can give them money, why not ?
Q4.Why you think that the government is worry about having a low birth rate?
She answered: Smaller local talent pool, people from other country might dominate Singapore
Q5.Do you agree with the current government's giving birth bonus at this time? Why?
She answered: Yes, since the government want us the have more children, he is using this method as a respond to this situation, this can encourage people in Singapore to give birth more.
Out of the seven people interviewed, six were already married, one was single and was intending to get married. The one who was going to get married was waiting for her boyfriend to come out from the army and wants to have 3 children. All of the people we interviewed all want to have children. Most of them wanted to have 1-3 children. They do not want to have more than 3 children because of the tight income, high cost of living and the lack of space despite the bonus for more children. They also think that the baby bonus are not enough to survive through a financial crisis.
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