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Housing

HDB Households by Ethnic Group

Data from Jan 2008 to Dec 2018Updated 7 months ago

HDB (Housing & Development Board)

No of households by Ethnic group

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HDBHouseholdsbyEthnicGroup.csv (12 rows, 260 B)

SHS Year
Year (YYYY)
Ethnic Group
Text
No. of Households
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2008Chinese669919
2008Malay115260
2008Indian71727
2008Others9120
2013Chinese702366
2013Malay113489
2013Indian78759
2013Others13885
2018Chinese773953
2018Malay132029

Column legend

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

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_666b7f6884acb34320145917e61016aa"
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). HDB Households by Ethnic Group (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved January 15, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_666b7f6884acb34320145917e61016aa/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)

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