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Economy

Resident Working Persons Aged 15 Years and Over by Highest Qualification Attained, Marital Status and Sex (Census of Population 2000)

Last updated: 21 Jun 2025, 22:00 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 31/03/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2000

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8917

Data explorer

ResidentWorkingPersonsAged15YearsandOverbyHighestQualificationAttainedMaritalStatusandSexCensusofPopulation2000.csv (9 rows, 1.4 KB)

Number
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
(Total) Males
Numeric
(Total) Females
Numeric
(Single) Total
Numeric
(Single) Males
Numeric
(Single) Females
Numeric
(Married) Total
Numeric
(Married) Males
Numeric
(Married) Females
Numeric
(Widowed) Total
Numeric
(Widowed) Males
Numeric
(Widowed) Females
Numeric
(Divorced/Separated) Total
Numeric
(Divorced/Separated) Males
Numeric
(Divorced/Separated) 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%
Total148257988948259309743132823740719392198646862758835887922221743214789425631705425508
No Qualification141973870755489825107178297277995036402035484938322277156798029994982
Primary1441069780846298263091793083781081557604432111344412132232619826213577
Lower Secondary160567109530510373285321482113711180598373634323245910301429719732823914
Secondary40583823072417511411194858891530572776141660351115793816132824881246044717989
Upper Secondary1754921027827271062491369852550610835263986443661179489690346913222147
Polytechnic125087798014528762292365142577761364423171904745940949972560413
Other Diploma9463643491511452900399801902362978325323044663925838120167211295
University234880138271966098132737796435311504429891951523842478364227010791191

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
(Total) TotalTotal_TotalNumericNumber-
(Total) MalesTotal_MalesNumericNumber-
(Total) FemalesTotal_FemalesNumericNumber-
(Single) TotalSingle_TotalNumericNumber-
(Single) MalesSingle_MalesNumericNumber-
(Single) FemalesSingle_FemalesNumericNumber-
(Married) TotalMarried_TotalNumericNumber-
(Married) MalesMarried_MalesNumericNumber-
(Married) FemalesMarried_FemalesNumericNumber-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_07d377095ccadf0537e00722053dc42c"
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.

Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Working Persons Aged 15 Years and Over by Highest Qualification Attained, Marital Status and Sex (Census of Population 2000) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 3, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_07d377095ccadf0537e00722053dc42c/view

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Created on

26 Oct 2024

Licence

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

Agency

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)