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Economy

Resident Households by Per Capita Monthly Household Income from Work and Highest Qualification Attained of Head of Household (General Household Survey 2005)

Last updated: 20 Jun 2025, 19:01 SGT

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

Footnotes: Note: Data exclude heads who were students.Household income from work includes employer CPF contributions.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8743

Data explorer

ResidentHouseholdsbyPerCapitaMonthlyHouseholdIncomefromWorkandHighestQualificationAttainedofHeadofHouseholdGeneralHouseholdSurvey2005.csv (11 rows, 1 KB)

Number
Text
Total
Numeric
No Qualification
Numeric
Primary
Numeric
Lower Secondary
Numeric
Secondary
Numeric
Upper Secondary
Numeric
Polytechnic
Numeric
Other Diploma
Numeric
University
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%
Total1022642155071120202127908223542984246756848431181496
No Working Person101378397891496312655157625663191034227214
Below 25026495665650324634581015166606251563
250 - 49984974198121847216259202715802144012911628
500 - 749106445205931938819951277769610279926653663
750 - 9991006661641316179169372823210677408435034641
1,000 - 1,499174530235762192825804466372101811520756116485
1,500 - 1,999122517131951165414174307351477112086727718625
2,000 - 2,4998556973105960814718370101299949590519800
2,500 - 2,999565783212324740471076760097004401618277

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
TotalTotalNumericNumber-
No QualificationNoQualificationNumericNumber-
PrimaryPrimaryNumericNumber-
Lower SecondaryLowerSecondaryNumericNumber-
SecondarySecondaryNumericNumber-
Upper SecondaryUpperSecondaryNumericNumber-
PolytechnicPolytechnicNumericNumber-
Other DiplomaOtherDiplomaNumericNumber-
UniversityUniversityNumericNumber-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_0c6c222fc5e9747bfa1fb0e5c158fa36"
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 Households by Per Capita Monthly Household Income from Work and Highest Qualification Attained of Head of Household (General Household Survey 2005) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 13, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_0c6c222fc5e9747bfa1fb0e5c158fa36/view

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Created on

24 Oct 2024

Licence

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

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)