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Teachers in Schools - Length of Service and Age

Teachers in schools - Age

Education

Teachers in schools - Age

Data from Jan 1996 to Jan 2023

Last updated: 05 Dec 2024, 09:05 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).

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TeachersinschoolsAge.csv (1.3K rows, 43.8 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sex Text	Level Of School Text	Age Text	No Of Teachers Text
(Null)0.0% 19963.6% 19973.6% 19983.6% 19993.6%	(Null)0.0% F50.0% MF50.0%	(Null)0.0% PRIMARY33.3% SECONDARY33.3% PRE-UNIVERSITY33.3%	(Null)0.0% 25 - 2912.5% 30 - 3412.5% 35 - 3912.5% 40 - 4412.5%	(Null)0.0%
1996	MF	PRE-UNIVERSITY	24 YEARS & BELOW	83
1996	F	PRE-UNIVERSITY	24 YEARS & BELOW	71
1996	MF	PRE-UNIVERSITY	25 - 29	354
1996	F	PRE-UNIVERSITY	25 - 29	208
1996	MF	PRE-UNIVERSITY	30 - 34	291
1996	F	PRE-UNIVERSITY	30 - 34	188
1996	MF	PRE-UNIVERSITY	35 - 39	252
1996	F	PRE-UNIVERSITY	35 - 39	170
1996	MF	PRE-UNIVERSITY	40 - 44	214
1996	F	PRE-UNIVERSITY	40 - 44	144

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 Teachers	no_of_teachers	Text	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_3903d6f48227cf4a87a346b7f4958aa9"
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). Teachers in schools - Age (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 17, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_3903d6f48227cf4a87a346b7f4958aa9/view

About this dataset

Contact

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

Created on

15 Jan 2019

Licence

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

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)