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Research and Development Manpower Headcount by Sector

Data from Jan 2010 to Dec 2018Updated 4 months ago

A*STAR (Agency For Science, Technology and Research)

Headcount by Year

Data explorer

ResearchandDevelopmentManpowerHeadcountbySector.csv (225 rows, 9.6 KB)

Year Datetime (Year) "YYYY"	Sector Text (General)	Type of R&D Manpower Text (General)	Headcount Numeric (General)
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2018	Private Sector	PhD	1845
2018	Private Sector	Masters	5268
2018	Private Sector	Bachelors	12273
2018	Private Sector	Non Degree	1774
2018	Private Sector	Technicians	1315
2018	Private Sector	Other Supporting Staff	2037
2018	Government Sector	PhD	584
2018	Government Sector	Masters	1109
2018	Government Sector	Bachelors	1841
2018	Government Sector	Non Degree	163

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Datetime (Year) "YYYY"	-	-
Sector	sector	Text (General)	-	-
Type of R&D Manpower	type_of_rnd_manpower	Text (General)	-	-
Headcount	headcount	Numeric (General)	Headcount	-

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
          
datasetId = "d_44d7cf20ad185415de4e7df8642e44fc"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + datasetId 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Created on

07 Oct 2016

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

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A*STAR (Agency For Science, Technology and Research)

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