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A survey of older people’s perceptions of their social capital was implemented in Bukit Panjang town, Singapore. Complementing the on-site observation study (Chap. 7), this survey was administered at four different public spaces and elicited information on socio-demographics, neighbourhood connections, social and civic participation, helping behaviour, trust , neighbourhood facilities and problems.
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For a detailed description of each site, refer to Chap. 7.
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Carmona et al. (2010) have argued that successful spaces are those that support and facilitate people’s activities. As this space was well used by older people it was deemed to be ‘successful’ for the purposes of this survey research.
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Void decks can be found on the ground floor of apartment blocks in public housing . They have been purposefully left vacant (open space) and typically used for communal activities.
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See Chap. 10.
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Where ordinal measures included a ‘don’t know’ category, data were treated as missing.
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This project was led by Principal Investigator, Dr. Belinda Yuen. Colleagues, Parvathi Nair, Penny Kong and Adithi Moogoor assisted with designing the study protocol and instruments, data collection and/or analysis. Dr. Anna Lane contributed to writing the study report. We acknowledge the survey respondents who generously gave their time and shared their experience with the research team.
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Lane, A. (2019). Exploring Perceived Neighbourhood Social Capital. In: Yuen, B. (eds) Ageing and the Built Environment in Singapore. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92444-1_9
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