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Resident Households by Monthly Household Income and Main Source of Household Income (Household Expenditure Survey 2012/13)

Last updated: 27 Oct 2024, 23:22 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 29/07/2019

Update Frequency: 5 years

Survey period: Household Expenditure Survey 2012/13

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/16399

Data explorer

ResidentHouseholdsbyMonthlyHouseholdIncomeandMainSourceofHouseholdIncomeHouseholdExpenditureSurvey201213.csv (15 rows, 813 B)

Per Cent Text	Total 2/ Numeric	(Main Source of Household Income 1/) Employment Income Numeric	(Main Source of Household Income 1/) Business Income Numeric	(Main Source of Household Income 1/) Other Income Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
Total	100	100	100	100
Below 1,000	7.5	0.8	1.2	29.8
1,000 - 1,999	6.5	4.4	7.2	24.1
2,000 - 2,999	6.7	5.8	14.2	12.9
3,000 - 3,999	6.8	7.2	8.4	5.6
4,000 - 4,999	7	7.4	9.1	4.4
5,000 - 5,999	6.1	6.7	7.3	3.3
6,000 - 7,999	12.6	14.6	9.5	4.9
8,000 - 9,999	10	11.8	6.7	1.8
10,000 - 11,999	8.3	9.5	7.4	2.3

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Per Cent	PerCent	Text	Per Cent	-
Total 2/	Total2	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Main Source of Household Income 1/) Employment Income	MainSourceofHouseholdIncome1_EmploymentIncome	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Main Source of Household Income 1/) Business Income	MainSourceofHouseholdIncome1_BusinessIncome	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Main Source of Household Income 1/) Other Income	MainSourceofHouseholdIncome1_OtherIncome	Numeric	Per Cent	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_5dee9e6d9e7e70ac199b158ba45f5abf"
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 and Main Source of Household Income (Household Expenditure Survey 2012/13) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 7, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_5dee9e6d9e7e70ac199b158ba45f5abf/view

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Created on

27 Oct 2024

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