Distribution of Monthly Household Expenditure Among Resident Households by Type of Goods and Services and Working Status/Occupation of Main Income Earner (Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18)

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DistributionofMonthlyHouseholdExpenditureAmongResidentHouseholdsbyTypeofGoodsandServicesandWorkingStatusOccupationofMainIncomeEarnerHouseholdExpenditureSurvey201718.csv (176 rows, 17.3 KB)

Per Cent Text	Total Text	(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Legislators, Senior Officials & Managers Text	(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Professionals Text	(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Associate Professionals & Technicians Text	(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Clerical Support Workers Text	(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Service & Sales Workers Text	(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Craftsmen & Related Workers Text	(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Plant & Machine Operators & Assemblers Text	(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Cleaners, Labourers & Related Workers Text	(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Others 2/ Text	Not Working Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)21.0%	(Null)21.6%	(Null)21.0%	(Null)22.7%	(Null)23.3%	(Null)22.7%	(Null)22.2%	(Null)24.4%	(Null)23.3%	(Null)24.4%	(Null)21.6%
TOTAL 1/	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
FOOD AND NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES	6.6	5.3	6.1	7	7.4	7.6	8.8	8.8	9.4	5.7	8.2
FOOD	6.1	5	5.7	6.5	6.9	7.1	8.2	8.2	8.7	5.4	7.5
Bread and Cereals	1.2	0.9	1.1	1.3	1.4	1.3	1.6	1.6	1.6	1	1.3
Meat	1	0.9	0.9	1	1.2	1.2	1.6	1.5	1.7	0.8	1.3
Fish and Seafood	1	0.8	0.8	1	1.2	1.2	1.4	1.4	1.6	0.8	1.4
Milk, Cheese and Eggs	0.7	0.6	0.7	0.8	0.7	0.9	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.6
Oils and Fats	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2
Fruits	0.8	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.9	1	0.7	1
Vegetables	0.8	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.9	1	1.2	1.2	1.3	0.7	1.2

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Per Cent	PerCent	Text	Per Cent	-
Total	Total	Text	Per Cent	-
(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Legislators, Senior Officials & Managers	OccupationofMainIncomeEarnerwhoisWorking_Legislators_SeniorOfficialsandManagers	Text	Per Cent	-
(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Professionals	OccupationofMainIncomeEarnerwhoisWorking_Professionals	Text	Per Cent	-
(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Associate Professionals & Technicians	OccupationofMainIncomeEarnerwhoisWorking_AssociateProfessionalsandTechnicians	Text	Per Cent	-
(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Clerical Support Workers	OccupationofMainIncomeEarnerwhoisWorking_ClericalSupportWorkers	Text	Per Cent	-
(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Service & Sales Workers	OccupationofMainIncomeEarnerwhoisWorking_ServiceandSalesWorkers	Text	Per Cent	-
(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Craftsmen & Related Workers	OccupationofMainIncomeEarnerwhoisWorking_CraftsmenandRelatedWorkers	Text	Per Cent	-
(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Plant & Machine Operators & Assemblers	OccupationofMainIncomeEarnerwhoisWorking_PlantandMachineOperatorsandAssemblers	Text	Per Cent	-
(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Cleaners, Labourers & Related Workers	OccupationofMainIncomeEarnerwhoisWorking_Cleaners_LabourersandRelatedWorkers	Text	Per Cent	-

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dataset_id = "d_26ad073f9fd6d9a76edc922f403815d3"
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response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2023). Distribution of Monthly Household Expenditure Among Resident Households by Type of Goods and Services and Working Status/Occupation of Main Income Earner (Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 2, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_26ad073f9fd6d9a76edc922f403815d3/view

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