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Health

Household Healthcare Expenditure

Data from Jan 2002 to Dec 2017

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:37 SGT

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Household healthcare expenditure

Household Healthcare Expenditure

Data explorer

HouseholdHealthcareExpenditure.csv (24 rows, 727 B)

Period start Year (YYYY)	Period end Year (YYYY)	Income quintile Text	Percentage expenditure on healthcare Numeric (Percentage)
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2002	2003	All Households	4.7
2002	2003	1st quintile	5.7
2002	2003	2nd quintile	4.8
2002	2003	3rd quintile	4.8
2002	2003	4th quintile	4.8
2002	2003	5th quintile	4.1
2007	2008	All Households	5.3
2007	2008	1st quintile	6
2007	2008	2nd quintile	5.5
2007	2008	3rd quintile	5.5

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Period start	period_start	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Period end	period_end	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Income quintile	income_quintile	Text	-	-
Percentage expenditure on healthcare	percentage_expenditure_on_healthcare	Numeric (Percentage)	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_59f95bfb94f977cc3d9e74ac6f156ab5"
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 Health. (2017). Household Healthcare Expenditure (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 8, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_59f95bfb94f977cc3d9e74ac6f156ab5/view

About this dataset

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Created on

03 Apr 2017

Licence

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

Agency

MOH (Ministry of Health)