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School Life Expectancy, Annual

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School Life Expectancy, Annual

Data from Jan 2000 to Dec 2020

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:38 SGT

MOE (Ministry of Education)

School Life Expectancy is the number of years of education that a 6 year old child can expect to enrol in over his/her lifetime, given the current enrolment rates. It is calculated by taking the sum of enrolment rates across each single year of age starting at age six. Notes: 1) Figures refer to resident population, i.e. Singapore citizens and permanent residents and exclude enrolment in pre-school. 2) Figures from 2005 include private educational institutions.

School life expectancy by Year

Data explorer

SchoolLifeExpectancyAnnual.csv (21 rows, 238 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
School life expectancy
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
200012.7
200112.6
200212.7
200312.7
200412.6
200513.9
200614.1
200714.2
200814.4
200914.5

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
School life expectancyschool_life_expectancyNumericNumber of years-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_5c13da0992fc9e234ebd9577ec761d44"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Ministry of Education. (2017). School Life Expectancy, Annual (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 23, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_5c13da0992fc9e234ebd9577ec761d44/view

About this dataset

Contact

song_boon_khing@moe.gov.sg

Created on

04 Aug 2017

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)