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Economy

Married Couples in Resident Households by Occupation of Husband and Wife (Census of Population 2020)

Last updated: 06 Mar 2026, 22:01 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 18/06/2021

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2020

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/17540

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MarriedCouplesinResidentHouseholdsbyOccupationofHusbandandWifeCensusofPopulation2020.csv (11 rows, 1.6 KB)

Number
Text
Total
Numeric
(Occupation of Husband) Legislators, Senior Officials & Managers
Numeric
(Occupation of Husband) Professionals
Numeric
(Occupation of Husband) Associate Professionals & Technicians
Numeric
(Occupation of Husband) Clerical Support Workers
Numeric
(Occupation of Husband) Service & Sales Workers
Numeric
(Occupation of Husband) Craftsmen & Related Trades Workers
Numeric
(Occupation of Husband) Plant & Machine Operators & Assemblers
Numeric
(Occupation of Husband) Cleaners, Labourers & Related Workers
Text
(Occupation of Husband) Others1/
Numeric
(Occupation of Husband) Not Employed
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%
(Null)9.1%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total97733317764616565813579726642651963932296600403499344220779
Legislators, Senior Officials & Managers9020939203221031066612032614108830555428458887
Professionals1365273502155456203012018447617693636616215111084
Associate Professionals & Technicians11171122589256032795631486478360888501709156010210
Clerical Support Workers9779216807102682030758597871627312851331781113428
Service & Sales Workers830517721561411318304415347577814899590253212896
Craftsmen & Related Trades Workers5520543390735156383104091739341920
Plant & Machine Operators & Assemblers941954450613993704638952925915541348
Cleaners, Labourers & Related Workers510412006943337815754910378311005951436513563
Others1/7461437410828164987-14496

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
TotalTotalNumericNumber-
(Occupation of Husband) Legislators, Senior Officials & ManagersOccupationofHusband_Legislators_SeniorOfficialsandManagersNumericNumber-
(Occupation of Husband) ProfessionalsOccupationofHusband_ProfessionalsNumericNumber-
(Occupation of Husband) Associate Professionals & TechniciansOccupationofHusband_AssociateProfessionalsandTechniciansNumericNumber-
(Occupation of Husband) Clerical Support WorkersOccupationofHusband_ClericalSupportWorkersNumericNumber-
(Occupation of Husband) Service & Sales WorkersOccupationofHusband_ServiceandSalesWorkersNumericNumber-
(Occupation of Husband) Craftsmen & Related Trades WorkersOccupationofHusband_CraftsmenandRelatedTradesWorkersNumericNumber-
(Occupation of Husband) Plant & Machine Operators & AssemblersOccupationofHusband_PlantandMachineOperatorsandAssemblersNumericNumber-
(Occupation of Husband) Cleaners, Labourers & Related WorkersOccupationofHusband_Cleaners_LabourersandRelatedWorkersTextNumber-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_5cf49a5c723f93e0effa31e8e6975e1b"
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.

Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Married Couples in Resident Households by Occupation of Husband and Wife (Census of Population 2020) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 1, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_5cf49a5c723f93e0effa31e8e6975e1b/view

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Created on

22 Oct 2024

Licence

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

Agency

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)