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Education

Combined And Gross Enrolment Ratio For Primary, Secondary & Tertiary Education

Data from Jan 1990 to Dec 2020

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:23 SGT

MOE (Ministry of Education)

Tertiary

Data explorer

CombinedAndGrossEnrolmentRatioForPrimarySecondaryTertiaryEducation.csv (372 rows, 19.6 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Category Text	Level Of Education Text	Sex Text	Gross Enrolment Ratio Numeric (Percentage)
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
1990	COMBINED GROSS ENROLMENT RATIO	ALL LEVELS	MF	79.8
1990	COMBINED GROSS ENROLMENT RATIO	ALL LEVELS	M	81
1990	COMBINED GROSS ENROLMENT RATIO	ALL LEVELS	F	78.4
1990	GROSS ENROLMENT RATIO	PRIMARY EDUCATION	MF	102.5
1990	GROSS ENROLMENT RATIO	PRIMARY EDUCATION	M	103.6
1990	GROSS ENROLMENT RATIO	PRIMARY EDUCATION	F	101.2
1990	GROSS ENROLMENT RATIO	SECONDARY EDUCATION	MF	95.1
1990	GROSS ENROLMENT RATIO	SECONDARY EDUCATION	M	93.4
1990	GROSS ENROLMENT RATIO	SECONDARY EDUCATION	F	96.8
1990	GROSS ENROLMENT RATIO	TERTIARY EDUCATION	MF	23.5

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Category	category	Text	-	-
Level Of Education	level_of_education	Text	-	-
Sex	sex	Text	-	-
Gross Enrolment Ratio	gross_enrolment_ratio	Numeric (Percentage)	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_1186df307fe23b1b655ce7774ef44ff1"
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. (2015). Combined And Gross Enrolment Ratio For Primary, Secondary & Tertiary Education (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 15, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_1186df307fe23b1b655ce7774ef44ff1/view

About this dataset

Contact

song_boon_khing@moe.gov.sg

Created on

20 May 2015

Licence

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

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)