Bibliography of Singapore Demography

Introduction

1 Introduction The first attempt at producing a bibliography of the demography of Singapore was one which covered the Malaysian region including Singapore entitled The Demography of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei: A Bibliography by Saw Swee-Hock (39 pp.). This bibliography, containing some 349 titles, was published by the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong, in January 1970. In preparing the present updated version to take into account the numerous works published since then, I have decided to produce one bibliography to cover Malaysia, Bibliography of Malaysian Demography, with 1,379 titles, published in 2005 by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, and another to cover Singapore in view of the present tendency for writers to treat these two regions separately. This way researchers interested in only one region need not acquire a combined publication. Looking ahead one could see the added advantage in that a revised edition of the two bibliographies could be prepared at different dates in the future to take into account the likely differential developments in the two regions. In compiling the 1,165 titles included in this bibliography of Singapore reference was made, apart from Saw’s original work, to numerous bibliographies among which the more important were: 1. CHEESEMAN, H.R. Bibliography of Malaya; being a classified list of books wholly or partly in English relating to the Federation of Malaya and Singapore, London: Longmans, 1959, 234 pp. 2. CHALLIS, Joyce Annotated Bibliography of Economic and Social Materials in Singapore: Part I — Government Publications, Research Bibliography Series No. 1, Singapore: Economic Research Centre, University of Singapore, second edition, 1969, 86 pp. 3. CHALLIS, Joyce Annotated Bibliography of Economic and Social Material in Singapore and West Malaysia — Non-Government Publications, Research Bibliography Series No. 3, Singapore: Economic Research Centre, University of Singapore, 1969, 241 pp. 4. LIM, Beda ‘Malaya: a background bibliography’, Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 35(2&3), 1962, 199 pp. 5. LIM, Huck Tee and WIJASURIYA, D.E.K. ‘Index Malaysiana; an index to the Journal of the Straits Branch Royal Asiatic Society and the Journal of the Malayan Branch Royal Asiatic Society, 1878–1963’, Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 36(4), 395 pp. 6. University of Singapore library, Cataloguing Department Catalogue of the Singapore/Malaysia Collection, Boston: G.K. Hall, 1968, 757 pp. 7. ROFF, Margaret Official Publications of Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei in New York Libraries, Occasional Bibliographical Papers No. 1, New York: Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University, 1971, 45 pp. 8. PELZER, Karl J. West Malaysia and Singapore: A Selected Bibliography, New Haven: Human Relations Area Files Press, 1971, 394 pp. 9. LIM, Lena U Wen Physical Planning in Singapore and Malaysia: A Bibliography and Index, Singapore: Design Partnership, 1972, 137 pp. 10. University of Singapore Library, Cataloguing Department Catalogue of the Singapore/Malaysia Collection Supplement, 2 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SINGAPORE DEMOGRAPHY 1968–1972, Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1974, 324 pp. 11. SAW, Swee-Hock and CHENG, Siok Hwa A Bibliography of the Demography of Singapore, Singapore: University Education Press, 1975, 120 pp. 12. WONG, Grace Khei Mie, OOI, Giok Ling and PHUA, Kai Heng Annotated Bibliography on Ageing and the Elderly in Singapore, Singapore: Faculty of Architecture, Building and Real-Estate, National University of Singapore, 1999, 172 pp. 13. YUEN, Belinda, TEO, Ho Pin and OOI, Giok Ling Singapore Housing: An Annotated Bibliography, Singapore: Singapore: Faculty of Architecture, Building and Real-Estate, National University of Singapore, 1999, 146 pp. 14. Population Index, a quarterly. Princeton: Office of Population Research, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University The card catalogues and reference materials of the following institutions were also consulted: the National Library of Singapore, the National University of Singapore library, Nanyang Technological University library, the library of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, the University of Malaya library and the University of Hong Kong library. Books and periodicals were consulted in these places. In a few instances where a publication could not be traced, inclusion was based on the title. The scope of this bibliography is restricted to published works in the English language in the form of books, booklets, monographs, reports, articles and ordinances. To facilitate finding, the publications are classified first into twenty sections according to subject matter, and within each section the entries are arranged in alphabetic sequence by author, with further grouping in order of the year of publication in...