ANALYSE DATA / INFORMATION COLLECTED

Survey responses analysis:

For this survey, we have 10 answers in total.

There are 61 respondents who have answered our online survey questions. There are more than half of the people are international and 29.51% are local. Base on our research, there are a few locals who found that the time took them too long for going school or work and sometimes they will be late because of traffic jam. So they will rent a room which is nearby their school or working place. There are 40 persons come from the group age which is 11-20 and 16 persons is around age 21-30. Foreign students take up a large part in the respondents and they are mostly living in cooperative.

Out of 61 respondents with more than half of them are living in collectively with more than 2 people in a room. According to the statistics of responses, there are 22.95% of respondents are living with one people and 19.67% are living with 2 people. The rental is usually divides equally for each people when living in cooperative and the more people living in a room, the cheaper price for renting a room. Student who wants to save money and don't have ability to pay a higher rental, they will choose to living collectively. Besides, the workers who are low income will rent a room with lower rental as well and share with others. The range of budget shows that most of the people will consider to rent a room which is less than SGD400. The following will be 400-500, 500-600 and more than 600. The sixth question is about what kind of housemates they prefer to live with. There are 43 respondents prefer to live with student as they will consider to live with people can match to their daily routine. Some workers they will just back home at night and they need to sleep early. Hence, live with student is the best choice for them.

According to the statistics of responses, living in cooperative has a higher percentage than living in condominium as the rental which living in cooperative is cheaper than condominium. Most of the respondents have choose location as their first considering thing before rent a room as it can save the transport fee and no need to worry about traffic jam or waste their time on the way to work. There are 47 people do not prefer to live with owner as they will feel like controlled by the owner such as they are not allowed cooking in the house and cannot bring their friends come to their room, easy to get conflict with owner. Some of them will prefer to live with owner as they can easy to consult with the owner about what they need in their room and there will be orderliness and clean. Sometimes, the owner will able to help you to solve some problems on repair something such as the light bulbs burned out quickly. When linked to the last question, there are a lot of difference responses. So we have sort through and picked some responses, such as lack of privacy, communication, different lifestyle, hygiene, limited Space, noise, different sleeping time and conflict.