Questionnaire on attitudes to Compulsory National Service - Singapore
Dear survey respondent,
I am asking for your assistance to complete this questionnaire to fulfil the requirements for a school topic of study.
I wish to examine attitudes towards Compulsory national service, and how you feel it affects issues like national pride and national security. I also wish to know whether you felt the time spent was a worthwhile part of your life.
The results are strictly confidential – I am interested only in the results, not from who they originated from.
Thank you for completing the questionnaire.
Using a scale as follows, please answer the following questions:
1 strongly disagree
2 mildly disagree
3 no strong feeling
4 mildly agree
5 strongly agree
1. My time spent in NS had a positive impact on my life.
2. I feel proud to have served my country in this way.
3. Every young person should spend time in military service.
4. Singapore’s national security is enhanced by the NS program.
5. A country should be able to call upon its people to serve in its
army.
6. Compulsory military service is an invasion of human rights.
7. The NS program instils a sense of national pride in a country.
8. Participating in NS has defined me as a man.
9. I learned skills that are useful in my life.
10. All countries should have compulsory military service.
11. My feelings would be no different if my country was at war.
12. Governments should provide special benefits like lower taxes
for those who serve their country.
13 Would you support conscription if your country is at war?
14. Do you have any other comments to make?
15. age
16. sex
Dear survey respondent,
I am asking for your assistance to complete this questionnaire to fulfil the requirements for a school topic of study.
I wish to examine attitudes towards Compulsory national service, and how you feel it affects issues like national pride and national security. I also wish to know whether you felt the time spent was a worthwhile part of your life.
The results are strictly confidential – I am interested only in the results, not from who they originated from.
Thank you for completing the questionnaire.
Using a scale as follows, please answer the following questions:
1 strongly disagree
2 mildly disagree
3 no strong feeling
4 mildly agree
5 strongly agree
1. My time spent in NS had a positive impact on my life.
2. I feel proud to have served my country in this way.
3. Every young person should spend time in military service.
4. Singapore’s national security is enhanced by the NS program.
5. A country should be able to call upon its people to serve in its
army.
6. Compulsory military service is an invasion of human rights.
7. The NS program instils a sense of national pride in a country.
8. Participating in NS has defined me as a man.
9. I learned skills that are useful in my life.
10. All countries should have compulsory military service.
11. My feelings would be no different if my country was at war.
12. Governments should provide special benefits like lower taxes
for those who serve their country.
13 Would you support conscription if your country is at war?
14. Do you have any other comments to make?
15. age
16. sex