Resident Households by Household Living Arrangement and Selected Characteristics (Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18)

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ResidentHouseholdsbyHouseholdLivingArrangementandSelectedCharacteristicsHouseholdExpenditureSurvey201718.csv (28 rows, 4.1 KB)

Number Text	(Couple-Based Households) Head Aged Below 35 Years - No Children in Household Text	(Couple-Based Households) Head Aged Below 35 Years - With Children in Household Text	(Couple-Based Households) Head Aged 35 - 49 Years - No Children in Household Text	(Couple-Based Households) Head Aged 35 - 49 Years - With Youngest Child Below 12 Years Text	(Couple-Based Households) Head Aged 35 - 49 Years - With Youngest Child Aged 12 - 15 Years Text	(Couple-Based Households) Head Aged 35 - 49 Years - With Youngest Child Aged 16 Years & Over Text	(Couple-Based Households) Head Aged 50 - 64 Years - No Children in Household Text	(Couple-Based Households) Head Aged 50 - 64 Years - With Youngest Child Below 12 Years Text	(Couple-Based Households) Head Aged 50 - 64 Years - With Youngest Child Aged 12 - 15 Years Text	(Couple-Based Households) Head Aged 50 - 64 Years - With Youngest Child Aged 16 Years & Over Text	(Couple-Based Households) Head Aged 65 Years & Over - No Children in Household Text	(Couple-Based Households) Head Aged 65 Years & Over - With Children in Household Text	(Other Households) Other Households - One-Person Text	(Other Households) Other Households - Others Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)14.3%	(Null)10.7%	(Null)10.7%	(Null)10.7%	(Null)10.7%	(Null)21.4%	(Null)10.7%	(Null)10.7%	(Null)10.7%	(Null)10.7%	(Null)10.7%	(Null)10.7%	(Null)10.7%	(Null)10.7%
Total 1/	35778	53520	50073	197317	36410	23574	59811	25352	38801	233907	77935	69236	194383	253049
By Type of Dwelling
HDB Dwellings	27650	45605	36050	140254	25434	17717	47410	20643	32117	190489	60990	53662	158890	211998
1- & 2-Room Flats 2/	351	3327	790	3307	874	-	4819	2066	827	2988	6759	1229	28071	21553
3-Room Flats	5159	7435	7059	19700	2911	2955	12819	4062	4634	19404	16744	10482	64043	63243
4-Room Flats	15785	21551	16862	50476	12023	6921	20170	7884	12074	94367	22148	24797	47128	78779
5-Room & Executive Flats	6354	13292	11339	66770	9626	7840	9602	6631	14582	73730	15338	17154	19648	48422
Condominiums & Other Apartments	8129	7429	13708	46221	8612	5038	9203	3069	5223	25943	8838	6793	30214	28863
Landed Properties	-	486	316	10671	2364	820	3050	1492	1461	17179	7799	8633	3633	11136
By Income Quintile 3/

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Number	Number	Text	Number	-
(Couple-Based Households) Head Aged Below 35 Years - No Children in Household	Couple_BasedHouseholds_HeadAgedBelow35Years_NoChildreninHousehold	Text	Number	-
(Couple-Based Households) Head Aged Below 35 Years - With Children in Household	Couple_BasedHouseholds_HeadAgedBelow35Years_WithChildreninHousehold	Text	Number	-
(Couple-Based Households) Head Aged 35 - 49 Years - No Children in Household	Couple_BasedHouseholds_HeadAged35_49Years_NoChildreninHousehold	Text	Number	-
(Couple-Based Households) Head Aged 35 - 49 Years - With Youngest Child Below 12 Years	Couple_BasedHouseholds_HeadAged35_49Years_WithYoungestChildBelow12Years	Text	Number	-
(Couple-Based Households) Head Aged 35 - 49 Years - With Youngest Child Aged 12 - 15 Years	Couple_BasedHouseholds_HeadAged35_49Years_WithYoungestChildAged12_15Years	Text	Number	-
(Couple-Based Households) Head Aged 35 - 49 Years - With Youngest Child Aged 16 Years & Over	Couple_BasedHouseholds_HeadAged35_49Years_WithYoungestChildAged16YearsandOver	Text	Number	-
(Couple-Based Households) Head Aged 50 - 64 Years - No Children in Household	Couple_BasedHouseholds_HeadAged50_64Years_NoChildreninHousehold	Text	Number	-
(Couple-Based Households) Head Aged 50 - 64 Years - With Youngest Child Below 12 Years	Couple_BasedHouseholds_HeadAged50_64Years_WithYoungestChildBelow12Years	Text	Number	-
(Couple-Based Households) Head Aged 50 - 64 Years - With Youngest Child Aged 12 - 15 Years	Couple_BasedHouseholds_HeadAged50_64Years_WithYoungestChildAged12_15Years	Text	Number	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_2c4e8a61d3e254ef0c672192b0731de0"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Households by Household Living Arrangement and Selected Characteristics (Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 17, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_2c4e8a61d3e254ef0c672192b0731de0/view

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ResidentHouseholdsbyHouseholdLivingArrangementandSelectedCharacteristicsHouseholdExpenditureSurvey201718.csv (28 rows, 4.1 KB)

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