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Thank you for participating in this study Please read the informed consent prior to the start of your participation
Please complete all the fields in this questionnaire and give this to the researcher prior
to the start of the interview
The survey below will take you 10 minutes to fill in The interview is to last about an hour and a half
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Marital Status
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Age
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Gender
Present Job Description (tasks
handled)
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Designation/ Position Held
Annual income from job
[ (an estimated range is sufficient)
Combined household annual
income
[ (an estimated range is sufficient)
Past jobs held & in which year
(*5,C2 ) (Previous Job Held)
(! ) (Year )
(9:) Educational History
Last educational achievement/
Year Achieved
((94") (Educational Achievement)
(! ) (Year )
#0 Living Arrangements and Family Care
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Who do you currently live with?
Q11c)
Do you have any children? If so, how many? (please go on to answer Q11b
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Q11c)
Do you have any children? If so, how many? (please go on to answer Q11b and Q11c if the answer is yes)
How old are they?
11c
Who cared for them when they were very young?
11d
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Do you expect them to leave home in the near future and when?
Do you have living parents/ elderly dependents? (If yes) How many?
How often do you see them and are you involved in their care (now or in the near future)?
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Semi-Structured Interview Guide S/N Questions
A@MD Expectations and
Goals
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Would you say you're clear about what your goals are? Could you describe to
me exactly what you want to do (on employment in the future)?
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What did you think you would grow up to be, when you were a child?
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Did what you want to be change over time?
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Do you think you’ve achieved/ on your way to achieving the goals you wanted from childhood?
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Why or why not?
Let's talk about some of the expectations that others around you have of you What are some of the expectations? From whom do they come from?
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Do you think that these are pressures?
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(If yes) Which ones? Are these pressures justified, in your view?
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Having a career, having a family is sometimes seen as two incompatible things
Do you think this is true?
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Have you ever shared these thoughts with others (e.g husband, peers,
children, parents)? If yes, what were some of the reactions you had?
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Please name the top three things you like about your life right now Would you describe yourself as happy or fulfilled with your choices?
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Please name the top three things you most dislike about your life right now Would you say that you've achieved what you wanted to achieve?
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Do you think that you have more choices than most women?
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(If no) What women have more choices than yourself?
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Does having more education and more money allow you more choices when you make decisions?
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(if at some point you left the workforce, or re-entered work)
Would you say that taking on work/ leaving work was a choice you made
entirely of your own volition?
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Why or why not?
Would you describe this choice as an easy or hard choice?
Did you regret that choice, or any of the choices you’ve made so far?
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Why or why not?
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If you were unwell, is there some assistance or care from other people in your family?
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Or from your friends?
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How would you receive this assistance, if any? (household chores help, etc)
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(if working now) Do you think you would like to leave the workforce one day? (&>:CK) $ 4+=E.DC "
(if yes) How and why?
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How do you feel about reaching (your age)?
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Would you prefer to do something different in your life now?
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(If yes) Please elaborate on the top three things How would you go about getting them?
Are these related to education, skills and career experience you've had?
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If you do, why do you want to do something different in your life at this stage?
If you don’t, why not?
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Are you aware that for those who turn 55 from 1 Jul 08 to 30 Jun 09, you now have to reach $109,000 in your CPF as a minimum sum by 2009 in order to receive the payouts of $960?
What are your views on this? How has this affected you, or your family/peers?
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Another CPF change was that if you could not reach that minimum sum in your CPF, you could only withdraw 50% of your CPF or $5,000 (whichever is
higher) If you did reach the minimum sum you could only withdraw money in excess of that sum and another mandatory $29,500 in your Medisave
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What are your thoughts on this? Has this changed your work decisions or those
of your family/ peers?
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What kind of obstacles do you encounter at work?
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Have you ever experienced discrimination of some kind?
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(If yes) What kind of discrimination?
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Please share some thoughts on whether you think you, or your peers, have come up against discrimination in paid employment
Specifically, discrimination against women, mothers/ mothers-to-be, middle-aged women, class/money, appearance, mothers/women who have not worked for a while, part-timers/ flexi-workers?
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(if at some point you left the workforce, or re-entered work)
Would you say that taking on work/ leaving work was a choice. .. against discrimination in paid employment
Specifically, discrimination against women, mothers/ mothers-to-be, middle-aged women, class/money, appearance, mothers/women who have not worked for... you for participating in this study Please read the informed consent prior to the start of your participation
Please complete all the fields in this questionnaire and give this to