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Our Singaporean Values: Key Findings from the World Values Survey

3 Feb 2021
Our Singaporean Values Key Findings from the World Values Survey

Singapore's reputation as a prosperous city-state has been built on its ability to thrive amidst differences. With a multi-ethnic, multi-religious resident population, our embrace of multiculturalism inevitably extends to the values we hold dear, which underpins our beliefs and how we live our lives.

Against this backdrop, Our Singaporean Values is the first of a three-part series presenting the salient findings from the latest 2020 instalment of the World Values Survey (WVS). WVS is the largest non-commercial, cross-national, and time-series survey of public attitudes and values globally. Spanning 80 countries and currently in its seventh iteration, WVS seeks to study individuals' changing values across polities and their impact on social and political life.

Our Singaporean Values analyses the responses of 2,012 Singapore participants for WVS 2020. Comparisons across WVS iterations and countries are presented where appropriate to allow for the tracking of shifting or sustaining values across time and space. In general, the survey sample is nationally representative, as the dataset was weighted to mirror the age, gender, and race demographics of the adult resident population in Singapore.

The following is a succinct rundown of the key findings spanning seven key areas: A) Individual Priorities, B) Personal Ethics, C) Religion and Religiosity, D) Family and Gender, E) Economy and Employment, F) State and Society, and G) Politics and Governance.


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Institute of Policy Studies
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