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Collection: Sample Household Survey: Number of Income Earners in HDB Households, by Ethnic Group and Flat Type

Dataset: Average Number of Income Earners by Flat Type

Housing

Average Number of Income Earners by Flat Type

HDB (Housing & Development Board)

Data from Jan 2008 to Dec 2013

Last updated 6 Jun 2024

No of persons by Flat type

Data explorer

AverageNumberofIncomeEarnersbyFlatType.csv (14 rows, 244 B)

SHS Year Year (YYYY)	Flat Type Text	No. of Persons Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2008	1-room	0.9
2008	2-room	1
2008	3-room	1.4
2008	4-room	1.8
2008	5-room	1.9
2008	Executive	2
2008	All	1.7
2013	1-room	0.8
2013	2-room	1.1
2013	3-room	1.5

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
SHS Year	shs_year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Flat Type	flat_type	Text	-	-
No. of Persons	number	Numeric	No. of Persons	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_1a2ea5e9309802413f650aba1b103166"
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.

Housing & Development Board. (2016). Average Number of Income Earners by Flat Type (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_1a2ea5e9309802413f650aba1b103166/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

27 Jun 2016

Licence

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

Agency

HDB (Housing & Development Board)