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Economy

Resident Households by Household Size and Number of Working Persons in Household (General Household Survey 2015)

Last updated: 03 Aug 2025, 19:00 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 09/03/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: General Household Survey 2015

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8263

Data explorer

ResidentHouseholdsbyHouseholdSizeandNumberofWorkingPersonsinHouseholdGeneralHouseholdSurvey2015.csv (7 rows, 486 B)

Thousands Text	Total Numeric	No Working Person Numeric	1 Working Person Numeric	2 Working Persons Text	3 Working Persons Text	4 Or More Working Persons Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)14.3%	(Null)28.6%	(Null)42.9%
Total	1225.3	118.8	397.3	468.8	159.6	80.8
1 Person	146	49.7	96.3	na	na	na
2 Persons	259.2	50.8	105.2	103.2	na	na
3 Persons	256.2	12.3	86.6	117.8	39.6	na
4 Persons	282.2	3.9	66.7	128	60	23.6
5 Persons	164	1.4	28.3	74	34.5	25.9
6 Or More Persons	117.6	0.6	14.2	45.8	25.6	31.4

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Thousands	Thousands	Text	Thousands	-
Total	Total	Numeric	Thousands	-
No Working Person	NoWorkingPerson	Numeric	Thousands	-
1 Working Person	1WorkingPerson	Numeric	Thousands	-
2 Working Persons	2WorkingPersons	Text	Thousands	-
3 Working Persons	3WorkingPersons	Text	Thousands	-
4 Or More Working Persons	4OrMoreWorkingPersons	Text	Thousands	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_1602a3b0438077ebf416a8f5ef22095b"
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 Households by Household Size and Number of Working Persons in Household (General Household Survey 2015) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 13, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_1602a3b0438077ebf416a8f5ef22095b/view

About this dataset

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Created on

12 Jan 2024

Licence

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

Agency

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)