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Average Number of Income Earners by Ethnic Group

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Average Number of Income Earners by Ethnic Group

Data from Jan 2008 to Dec 2013

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:34 SGT

HDB (Housing & Development Board)

No of persons by Ethnic group

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AverageNumberofIncomeEarnersbyEthnicGroup.csv (10 rows, 181 B)

SHS Year
Year (YYYY)
Ethnic Group
Text
No. of Persons
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2008Chinese1.7
2008Malay1.8
2008Indian1.6
2008Others1.6
2008All1.7
2013Chinese1.7
2013Malay2
2013Indian1.6
2013Others1.8
2013All1.8

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
SHS Yearshs_yearYear (YYYY)--
Ethnic Groupethnic_groupText--
No. of PersonsnumberNumericNo. of Persons-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_47d8e6246e296c04d1ab68af5f138d51"
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.

Housing & Development Board. (2016). Average Number of Income Earners by Ethnic Group (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 22, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_47d8e6246e296c04d1ab68af5f138d51/view

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Created on

27 Jun 2016

Licence

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

Agency

HDB (Housing & Development Board)