Datasets
Social Values Anchors
Official Shared Values wording, SG101 consultation milestones, MCCY Social Values Survey metadata, and NVPC volunteering/donation rates published via MCCY — without ethnic stereotypes or invented survey percentages.
Social Values and Civic Participation Anchors
Narrative: social values and lived experience. Do not invent ethnic “character” traits. Survey microdata on data.gov.sg requires analysis before quoting item-level percentages.
Shared Values (White Paper 1991)
| # | Value (official citizenship-journey wording) |
|---|---|
| 1 | Nation before community and society above self |
| 2 | Family as the basic unit of society |
| 3 | Community support and respect for the individual |
| 4 | Consensus, not conflict |
| 5 | Racial and religious harmony |
Process dates (SG101): White Paper published 2 Jan 1991; debated and adopted 15 Jan 1991.
Consultation milestones (SG101)
| Year / initiative | Anchored outcome |
|---|---|
| 2012 Our Singapore Conversation | >47,000 participants; >660 dialogue sessions; five aspirations: opportunities, purpose, assurance, spirit, trust |
| Remaking Singapore 2002 | White Paper reframing social policy for a third generation (SG101 narrative) |
MCCY Social Values Survey (metadata)
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Fieldwork | Dec 2018 – Mar 2019 |
| Publisher | Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth |
| Focus | Attitudes and actions informing desire to build social capital |
| Open data | data.gov.sg collection 397 (raw CSV + variable descriptions) |
Do not fabricate summary statistics from the raw file in this dataset.
National giving rates (NVPC via MCCY)
Population stated by MCCY: Singapore residents and non-residents who volunteered / donated in the past 12 months.
| Year | National volunteerism rate | National donation rate |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 32% | 91% |
| 2014 | 18% | 83% |
| 2016 | 35% | 76% |
| 2018 | 29% | 79% |
| 2021 | 22% | 60% |
Source: MCCY volunteerism & philanthropy statistics citing NVPC Individual Giving Study, accessed 8 Aug 2026. Note: MCCY’s donation-rate caption on that page misstates “volunteered”; the column headers distinguish volunteerism vs donation.
National Giving Study 2025
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Survey scope | Nationally representative survey of 3,699 people in Singapore |
| Fieldwork | July–October 2025 |
| Any giving in past year | 68% |
| Structured volunteering | 21% |
| Monetary or in-kind donation | 45% |
Source: NVPC National Giving Study 2025, published 31 March 2026, accessed 13 Aug 2026. The study uses criteria-led behaviour questions and broadens giving to include informal helping; its rates are not directly comparable with the earlier residents-and-non-residents series above.
Record details
- Also known as
- ["Shared Values Singapore","Our Singapore Conversation aspirations","national volunteerism rate"]
- Jurisdiction
- SG
- What each row represents
- one Shared Values wording, consultation milestone, or NVPC rates metadata row
- Update cadence
- after MCCY or NVPC publish new values/volunteering releases
- Source format
- markdown
Dates describe this record’s own period and applicability. A verification date does not mean a rule is currently in force.
Sources
- SG101 — Creating a shared identity as Singaporeans Accessed 2026-08-08
- Singapore Journey — Shared Values lessons Accessed 2026-08-08
- data.gov.sg — MCCY Social Values Survey collection Accessed 2026-08-08
- MCCY — Volunteerism and philanthropy statistics Accessed 2026-08-08
- NVPC — National Giving Study 2025 Accessed 2026-08-13
Collection as of 2026-10-07 · An expanding collection. Published counts show available knowledge, not complete coverage of Singapore.