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Enrolment - Primary, By Level

Enrolment - Primary Eight

Education

Enrolment - Primary Eight

Data from Jan 1980 to Jan 1994

Last updated: 21 Feb 2025, 10:27 SGT

MOE (Ministry of Education)

Data explorer

EnrolmentPrimaryEight.csv (60 rows, 1.4 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Stream Text	Sex Text	Enrolment Pri 8 Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% Extended50.0% Monolingual50.0%	(Null)0.0% F50.0% MF50.0%	(Null)0.0%
1980	Extended	MF	0
1980	Extended	F	0
1980	Monolingual	MF	0
1980	Monolingual	F	0
1981	Extended	MF	0
1981	Extended	F	0
1981	Monolingual	MF	0
1981	Monolingual	F	0
1982	Extended	MF	0
1982	Extended	F	0

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Stream	stream	Text	-	-
Sex	sex	Text	-	-
Enrolment Pri 8	enrolment_pri_8	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_29e1c56fc883e5b59713e770cc2a774b"
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. (2016). Enrolment - Primary Eight (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 5, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_29e1c56fc883e5b59713e770cc2a774b/view

About this dataset

Contact

song_boon_khing@moe.gov.sg vivian_lin@moe.gov.sg

Created on

25 Oct 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)