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Economy

Resident Working Persons Aged 15 Years and Over by Highest Qualification Attained, Ethnic Group and Sex (General Household Survey 2005)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 28/03/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: General Household Survey 2005

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8768

Last updated 26 days ago (20 Aug 2026)

Updated every 10 years

Data explorer

ResidentWorkingPersonsAged15YearsandOverbyHighestQualificationAttainedEthnicGroupandSexGeneralHouseholdSurvey2005.csv (9 rows, 1.4 KB)

Number
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
(Total) Males
Numeric
(Total) Females
Numeric
(Chinese) Total
Numeric
(Chinese) Males
Numeric
(Chinese) Females
Numeric
(Malays) Total
Numeric
(Malays) Males
Numeric
(Malays) Females
Numeric
(Indians) Total
Numeric
(Indians) Males
Numeric
(Indians) Females
Numeric
(Others) Total
Numeric
(Others) Males
Numeric
(Others) Females
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total16472949596896876051298942737840561102184758115758690001269668447642490366282161515013
No Qualification11453668021465159559856123394751181976734146644139812460678245433
Primary140517902855023210908369148399352010414290581410189634538441140501639
Lower Secondary1695331099105962413247984967475132427516606766911095759634991683740943
Secondary382132212323169809281659149833131826653584079624562294851829011195562934042226
Upper Secondary19648511742179064143142835105963233321210461227516421111455276360217201882
Polytechnic1767581060447071314962389379602451406278006262975469562799331819101408
Other Diploma982054363954566814203458346837647631163360737942283151293017121218
University36912821204715708130593717029913563893434431491236201259341026717648113836265
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_071f24cd7e2cf1757ff09c4e987bb9d7"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Working Persons Aged 15 Years and Over by Highest Qualification Attained, Ethnic Group and Sex (General Household Survey 2005) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 15, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_071f24cd7e2cf1757ff09c4e987bb9d7/view

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Created on

24 Oct 2024

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

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)