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Government Budget and Fiscal Position, Annual

Government Manpower

Economy

Government Manpower

Updated 2 months ago

MOF (Ministry of Finance)

Figures for FY2019 to FY2023 are for actual headcount. Figures for FY2024 are for revised establishments. Figures for FY2025 are for budgeted establishments. The Establishment list is based on the number of permanent, non-contract staff in the Agency or Organ of State.

Data explorer

GovernmentManpower.csv (696 rows, 24 KB)

Financial Year
Text
Actual Revised Estimated
Text
Ministry
Text
Number
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
19973.4%
19983.4%
19993.4%
20003.4%
(Null)0.0%
Actual93.1%
Revised3.4%
Estimated3.4%
(Null)0.0%
Law4.2%
Health4.2%
Defence4.2%
Finance4.2%
(Null)0.0%
1997ActualAttorney-General's Chambers185
1998ActualAttorney-General's Chambers212
1999ActualAttorney-General's Chambers209
2000ActualAttorney-General's Chambers212
2001ActualAttorney-General's Chambers255
2002ActualAttorney-General's Chambers276
2003ActualAttorney-General's Chambers282
2004ActualAttorney-General's Chambers274
2005ActualAttorney-General's Chambers270
2006ActualAttorney-General's Chambers254

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Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
Financial Yearfinancial_yearText--
Actual Revised Estimatedactual_revised_estimatedText--
MinistryministryText--
NumbernumberNumeric--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_2ceefcf18f04feba153b9768652be854"
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 Finance. (2018). Government Manpower (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 24, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_2ceefcf18f04feba153b9768652be854/view

About this dataset

Contact

mof_qsm@mof.gov.sg

Created on

20 Feb 2018

Licence

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

Agency

MOF (Ministry of Finance)