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Average Monthly Household Expenditure Among Resident Households by Household Size and Type of Dwelling (Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18)

Last updated: 08 Nov 2024, 20:00 SGT

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

Footnotes: Expenditure data exclude imputed rental of owner-occupied accommodation.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/16492

Data explorer

AverageMonthlyHouseholdExpenditureAmongResidentHouseholdsbyHouseholdSizeandTypeofDwellingHouseholdExpenditureSurvey201718.csv (8 rows, 739 B)

Dollar
Text
Total 1/
Numeric
(HDB Dwellings) Total HDB
Numeric
(HDB Dwellings) 1- & 2-Room Flats 2/
Numeric
(HDB Dwellings) 3-Room Flats
Numeric
(HDB Dwellings) 4-Room Flats
Numeric
(HDB Dwellings) 5-Room & Executive Flats
Numeric
Condominiums & Other Apartments
Numeric
Landed Properties
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total490639561545270939335504796310500
12137167190615881941238943264489
234492782149323232866386065565990
346053993224432043962489373177489
4591949402463384246015894928510398
57218589324344772523970291015512584
6 or More8761658426524126617876941342314749
Average Household Size (Persons)3.23.12.22.53.23.73.24.3

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
DollarDollarTextDollar-
Total 1/Total1NumericDollar-
(HDB Dwellings) Total HDBHDBDwellings_TotalHDBNumericDollar-
(HDB Dwellings) 1- & 2-Room Flats 2/HDBDwellings_1_and2_RoomFlats2NumericDollar-
(HDB Dwellings) 3-Room FlatsHDBDwellings_3_RoomFlatsNumericDollar-
(HDB Dwellings) 4-Room FlatsHDBDwellings_4_RoomFlatsNumericDollar-
(HDB Dwellings) 5-Room & Executive FlatsHDBDwellings_5_RoomandExecutiveFlatsNumericDollar-
Condominiums & Other ApartmentsCondominiumsandOtherApartmentsNumericDollar-
Landed PropertiesLandedPropertiesNumericDollar-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_4f54aa1e1f925789af8c6efd3cd04418"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2023). Average Monthly Household Expenditure Among Resident Households by Household Size and Type of Dwelling (Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 6, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_4f54aa1e1f925789af8c6efd3cd04418/view

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Created on

02 Nov 2023

Licence

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

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)