Did I catch the HDB CEO cheating/lying with statistics?
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For example, a five-room flat in Bukit Batok Central built in 1989 has a floor area of 121 square metres, compared to 110 square metres for a similar unit built in 2003.
Based on official surveys, the average household size was 3.5 in 2010, and 4.9 in 1980.
This means an occupant in a 110 square metre five-room flat today will have 31 square metres of space, while a resident in a 121 square metres five-room flat in the 80s had only about 25 square metres of space.
Unquote.
Why use Bukit Batok Central's data of 1989 and 2003 [time span of 13 years] when the official survey average household size data is based on a 20 years time span of 1980 and 2010?
Surely HDB built flats of all room sizes in 1980 and 2010. Need not be the same area.
p/s are Bukit Batok flats bigger to encourage people to shift there?
Surely the difference is much more glaring when one compare data of the same 20 years period.
Is she blatantly bullshxting away and hope to get away with it? If so, she is really a cheat!
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1164517/1/.html
Smaller flats do not mean lower quality of living: HDB CEO
By Joanne Chan | Posted: 10 November 2011 1356 hrs
SINGAPORE: Public flats in Singapore may be getting smaller but this has not lowered quality of living, says Housing and Development Board's (HDB) CEO, Dr Cheong Koon Hean.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a housing forum on Thursday morning, Dr Cheong noted that there were now fewer persons living in one flat which works out to increased living space per person.
"Our families are smaller. In the old days, we have very large families living in a flat. Today, the family is two, three, four (people)."
The size of HDB flats has shrunk by five to 10 per cent over the last 20 to 30 years.
For example, a five-room flat in Bukit Batok Central built in 1989 has a floor area of 121 square metres, compared to 110 square metres for a similar unit built in 2003.
Based on official surveys, the average household size was 3.5 in 2010, and 4.9 in 1980.
This means an occupant in a 110 square metre five-room flat today will have 31 square metres of space, while a resident in a 121 square metres five-room flat in the 80s had only about 25 square metres of space.
Dr Cheong added that interior design also plays a part in creating good living space.