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Economy

Resident Households by Monthly Household Income from Work1/ and Number of Working Persons in Household (General Household Survey 2015)

Last updated: 04 Jul 2025, 20:00 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 09/03/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: General Household Survey 2015

Footnotes: 1/Includes employer CPF contributions.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8272

Data explorer

ResidentHouseholdsbyMonthlyHouseholdIncomefromWork1andNumberofWorkingPersonsinHouseholdGeneralHouseholdSurvey2015.csv (24 rows, 1.3 KB)

Thousands Text	Total Numeric	No Working Person Numeric	1 Working Person Numeric	2 Working Persons Numeric	3 Working Persons Numeric	4 Or More Working Persons Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% 091.7% 118.88.3%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
Total	1225.3	118.8	397.3	468.8	159.6	80.8
No Working Person	118.8	118.8	0	0	0	0
Below 1,000	24	0	23.2	0.8	0	0
1,000 - 1,499	36.4	0	34	2.2	0.1	0
1,500 - 1,999	33.6	0	27.9	5.5	0.3	0
2,000 - 2,499	37.4	0	27.3	9.4	0.7	0
2,500 - 2,999	33.2	0	21.5	11	0.6	0.1
3,000 - 3,499	33.7	0	20.7	11.5	1.6	0
3,500 - 3,999	34	0	18.6	13.3	2	0.1
4,000 - 4,499	38.9	0	20.1	15.6	3.1	0.1

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Thousands	Thousands	Text	Thousands	-
Total	Total	Numeric	Thousands	-
No Working Person	NoWorkingPerson	Numeric	Thousands	-
1 Working Person	1WorkingPerson	Numeric	Thousands	-
2 Working Persons	2WorkingPersons	Numeric	Thousands	-
3 Working Persons	3WorkingPersons	Numeric	Thousands	-
4 Or More Working Persons	4OrMoreWorkingPersons	Numeric	Thousands	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_5095906609476f39127d0a32660b74b5"
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. (2024). Resident Households by Monthly Household Income from Work1/ and Number of Working Persons in Household (General Household Survey 2015) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 20, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_5095906609476f39127d0a32660b74b5/view

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Created on

12 Jan 2024

Licence

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

Agency

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)