Resident Households by Monthly Household Expenditure and Income Group (Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18)

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 31/07/2019

Update Frequency: 5 years

Survey period: Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/16509

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ResidentHouseholdsbyMonthlyHouseholdExpenditureandIncomeGroupHouseholdExpenditureSurvey201718.csv (14 rows, 1.8 KB)

Per Cent Text	Total Numeric	(Monthly Income Group ($) 2/) Below 1,000 Numeric	(Monthly Income Group ($) 2/) 1,000 - 1,999 Numeric	(Monthly Income Group ($) 2/) 2,000 - 2,999 Numeric	(Monthly Income Group ($) 2/) 3,000 - 3,999 Text	(Monthly Income Group ($) 2/) 4,000 - 4,999 Numeric	(Monthly Income Group ($) 2/) 5,000 - 5,999 Numeric	(Monthly Income Group ($) 2/) 6,000 - 7,999 Numeric	(Monthly Income Group ($) 2/) 8,000 - 9,999 Numeric	(Monthly Income Group ($) 2/) 10,000 - 11,999 Numeric	(Monthly Income Group ($) 2/) 12,000 - 14,999 Numeric	(Monthly Income Group ($) 2/) 15,000 - 19,999 Numeric	(Monthly Income Group ($) 2/) 20,000 & Over Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)7.1%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
Below 1,000	7.2	45.8	31.3	21.3	7.1	3.7	3.2	1.4	0.7	0.6	0.1	0.3	0.1
1,000 - 1,999	16.2	27.2	37.5	41.1	38.8	31.9	24.3	14.7	8.7	5.4	4.8	2.3	1.1
2,000 - 2,999	15.7	10.5	16.2	22.5	26.4	26.8	27.4	25.9	19.5	12.6	9.9	6.7	2.4
3,000 - 3,999	13.7	5.1	6.5	7.3	14.4	17.3	18.8	22.6	21.8	20.5	16.7	10.6	3.6
4,000 - 4,999	11.5	3.4	2	2.7	5.9	10.7	13	15.7	18.4	20	15.1	15.8	7.1
5,000 - 5,999	8.2	2.2	2.8	2	3.8	4.3	4.7	8.5	11.9	13.1	14.8	12.7	8
6,000 - 7,999	11.5	3	1.4	2.1	2	3.2	6.2	7	10.9	17.2	18.5	24.1	20.6
8,000 - 9,999	6.4	1.1	1	0.4	1.1	1.3	1.2	1.8	4.2	6.1	11.6	13.3	16.8
10,000 - 11,999	3.8	1.1	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.6	0.3	1.1	1.9	2.3	4.3	6.3	13.9

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Per Cent	PerCent	Text	Per Cent	-
Total	Total	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Monthly Income Group ($) 2/) Below 1,000	MonthlyIncomeGroup_2_Below1_000	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Monthly Income Group ($) 2/) 1,000 - 1,999	MonthlyIncomeGroup_2_1_000_1_999	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Monthly Income Group ($) 2/) 2,000 - 2,999	MonthlyIncomeGroup_2_2_000_2_999	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Monthly Income Group ($) 2/) 3,000 - 3,999	MonthlyIncomeGroup_2_3_000_3_999	Text	Per Cent	-
(Monthly Income Group ($) 2/) 4,000 - 4,999	MonthlyIncomeGroup_2_4_000_4_999	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Monthly Income Group ($) 2/) 5,000 - 5,999	MonthlyIncomeGroup_2_5_000_5_999	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Monthly Income Group ($) 2/) 6,000 - 7,999	MonthlyIncomeGroup_2_6_000_7_999	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Monthly Income Group ($) 2/) 8,000 - 9,999	MonthlyIncomeGroup_2_8_000_9_999	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Monthly Income Group ($) 2/) 10,000 - 11,999	MonthlyIncomeGroup_2_10_000_11_999	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Monthly Income Group ($) 2/) 12,000 - 14,999	MonthlyIncomeGroup_2_12_000_14_999	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Monthly Income Group ($) 2/) 15,000 - 19,999	MonthlyIncomeGroup_2_15_000_19_999	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Monthly Income Group ($) 2/) 20,000 & Over	MonthlyIncomeGroup_2_20_000andOver	Numeric	Per Cent	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_4048b8e0e2b9bff5fad661a775914a44"
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. (2023). Resident Households by Monthly Household Expenditure and Income Group (Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved May 15, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_4048b8e0e2b9bff5fad661a775914a44/view

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ResidentHouseholdsbyMonthlyHouseholdExpenditureandIncomeGroupHouseholdExpenditureSurvey201718.csv (14 rows, 1.8 KB)

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