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Collection: Teachers’ Length of Service and Age by Level

Dataset: Teachers in Schools - Age

Education

Teachers in Schools - Age

Data from Jan 1996 to Jan 2024

Last updated: 10 Nov 2025, 15:29 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).

Data explorer

TeachersinSchoolsAge.csv (1.4K rows, 45.3 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Sex
Text
Level Of School
Text
Age
Text
No Of Teachers
Text
(Null)0.0%
19963.4%
19973.4%
19983.4%
19993.4%
(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%
1996MFPRE-UNIVERSITY24 YEARS & BELOW83
1996FPRE-UNIVERSITY24 YEARS & BELOW71
1996MFPRE-UNIVERSITY25 - 29354
1996FPRE-UNIVERSITY25 - 29208
1996MFPRE-UNIVERSITY30 - 34291
1996FPRE-UNIVERSITY30 - 34188
1996MFPRE-UNIVERSITY35 - 39252
1996FPRE-UNIVERSITY35 - 39170
1996MFPRE-UNIVERSITY40 - 44214
1996FPRE-UNIVERSITY40 - 44144
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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_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 (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved May 30, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_3903d6f48227cf4a87a346b7f4958aa9/view

About this dataset

Contact

leong_jun_jie@moe.gov.sgvivian_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)