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SPECIAL Results survey ADB Graph 1 Graph 2 Graph 3 Graph 4 154 ADB members (40%) of the 394 members have responded to the ADB Magazine Survey and have answered the 38 questions. Of the respondents 122 are male (79%) and 32 are female (21%). The editorial committee is really content to have that many responses. We thank you all for your cooperation and we hope you like to read the results as much as we did. Background of the ADB members The majority of the ADB members is between 30 and 50 years old (44% is between 30 – 40 years and 34% is between 40 – 50 years), 11% is younger than 30 years and 11% is older than 50 years. 49% of them are here with partner and children (35% of this group has more than 1 child), 37% is with a partner and 14% is in Singapore without a partner. The majority of 72% is working for a company or government institution (50% has a local contract and 50% has an expat contract), 24% owns their own company. Among the respondents are 1 housewife and 1 retiree. 3 persons are looking for a job. One third of the respondents are a member of the Hollandse Club. Other clubs joined by ADB members are: Prime Time, Tanglin Club, Cricket Club, Tower Club, American Club, and One15Marina. Most of the respondents live in Singapore between 2 – 5 years (graph 1) and expect to live here another 2 – 5 years (graph 2). More than 50% lives in an apartment (graph 3). The most respondents live in the area of Holland Village (19%). There are no specific other area with such a high score. The CBD including China town, East Coast, West Coast, the Orchard area including River Valley, and the Bukit Timah area all amount around 10%. Only 2% of the respondents live in Little India and the Woodlands Area. Although the Dutch have almost 3 bicycles per person in the Netherlands, most of the ADB members don’t even have a bicycle in Singapore and if they do have a bicycle they barely use them (graph 4). The ADB More than 50% of the ADB members joined the ADB over the last two years and 8 respondents (5%) are a member for more than 10 years (graph 5). 25% of the respondents have never attended an ADB activity and 71% attends more than 50% of the meetings (graph 6). It would be good to know why this 25% never comes to an activity. So if you belong to this group, please let us know what the reason is. That the Dutch like socializing and drinking becomes very clear when we look at what the most favourite ADB activity was in the past year; number 1 is the black tie dinner (38%), followed by the New Year drinks (19%) and the networking BBQ (13%). The ADB Magazine The magazine is well read; more than 37% reads every issue and 45% reads parts of it. Only 2 persons never reads it (see graph 7). 20 Vol.18 • No. 10 • December 2008 / January 2009
SPECIAL Magazine 2008 By Frank Kuijsters We are happy to read that the magazine is being rated overall as ‘good’; 2 persons find the magazine boring and 5 find it excellent (see graph 8). The top articles to read in the ADB magazine are: interviews with Dutch people in Singapore, company profiles, the column, reviews of ADB activities, business info and what is happening in Singapore. It is great to read that 38 respondents (28%) are willing to write an article for the magazine. We are really looking forward to their contribution, please contact the editorial committee at adb@pacific.net.sg. What products do we miss most? We miss our Dutch (old) cheese, drop, bread and broodbeleg (hagelslag, muisjes, pindakaas and filet American). Of the Dutch cookies we miss the stroopwafels, speculaas and ontbijtkoek. The Singaporeans like their fried food but we Dutch miss our real good and tasty Dutch bitterballen, the famous van Dobben kroketten, frikandellen or just a patatje oorlog. Of course the Hema rookworst and a broodje Shoarma were mentioned as well. The oer-Hollandse stamppot (andijvie, boerenkool or zuurkool) isn’t missed on the list either. What Dutch newspapers do we read? Regarding the Dutch newspapers the Telegraaf (including online) and the NRC (including NRC next, week, buitenland) are the most and equally read. We prefer the Financieele Dagblad (including online) to the Volkskrant. AD, Parool and Trouw are barely read. Regarding the Dutch magazines Elsevier is the most read magazine. Linda, Quote, FEM, HP de Tijd, Geen Stijl are the other magazines that are read by Dutch ADB members. Apart from newspapers we also look online at Nu.nl, Dft.nl and NOS. What do we dislike most of Singapore? There was a whole list of dislikes, but the top 3 of dislikes is: 1. The weather, it is too humid and there are no seasons; 2. The driving skills of Singaporeans including taxi drivers; 3. The Singaporeans in general: they only focus on money, they lack elegance, they don’t have humour, they are hard to understand (Singlish) and finally, they are inflexible. What do we like most of Singapore? Just like with the dislikes we got also a whole list of answers, but mainly the following 4 were mentioned: 1. The weather, good climate, temperature and clean air; 2. Food, lots of different places and different types of food (cheap to expensive); 3. That it is an excellent hub in the region, easy to travel to different beautiful places in the region; 4. That it is safe, clean, well organised and green. Graph 5 Graph 6 Graph 7 Graph 8 21 Vol.18 • No. 10 • December 2008 / January 2009
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