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Collection: Principals’ Length of Service and Age by Level

Dataset: Principals in Schools - Age

Education

Principals in Schools - Age

Data from Jan 1996 to Jan 2024

Last updated: 10 Nov 2025, 15:33 SGT

MOE (Ministry of Education)

(1) Length of Service is calculated based on officers' latest employment episode (i.e., for officers who are re-appointed/re-employed, their length of service is zeroised and calculated based on the date of their re-appointment/re-employment).

Data explorer

PrincipalsinSchoolsAge.csv (1K rows, 31.1 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sex Text	Level Of School Text	Age Text	No Of Principals Text
(Null)0.0% 19963.4% 19973.4% 19983.4% 19993.4%	(Null)0.0% F50.0% MF50.0%	(Null)0.0% PRIMARY33.3% SECONDARY33.3% PRE-UNIVERSITY33.3%	(Null)0.0% 30 - 3416.7% 35 - 3916.7% 40 - 4416.7% 45 - 4916.7%	(Null)0.0% 023.2% 16.2% 25.0% 53.7%
1996	MF	PRE-UNIVERSITY	30 - 34	0
1996	F	PRE-UNIVERSITY	30 - 34	0
1996	MF	PRE-UNIVERSITY	35 - 39	0
1996	F	PRE-UNIVERSITY	35 - 39	0
1996	MF	PRE-UNIVERSITY	40 - 44	1
1996	F	PRE-UNIVERSITY	40 - 44	1
1996	MF	PRE-UNIVERSITY	45 - 49	6
1996	F	PRE-UNIVERSITY	45 - 49	5
1996	MF	PRE-UNIVERSITY	50 - 54	1
1996	F	PRE-UNIVERSITY	50 - 54	1

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sex	sex	Text	-	-
Level Of School	level_of_school	Text	-	-
Age	age	Text	-	-
No Of Principals	no_of_principals	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_210a22c0afa1bb429c430de8bbcb5b9f"
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.

Ministry of Education. (2019). Principals in Schools - Age (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 1, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_210a22c0afa1bb429c430de8bbcb5b9f/view

About this dataset

Contact

vivian_lin@moe.gov.sg leong_jun_jie@moe.gov.sg

Created on

14 Jan 2019

Licence

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

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)