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Economy

Resident Employed Persons Aged 15 Years and Over by Level of Difficulty in Performing Basic Activity in Specific Domain and Gross Monthly Income from Work (Census of Population 2020)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 30/06/2026

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2020

Footnotes: Notes: Income from work includes employer CPF contributions.Data on income from work have been updated to include Additional MediSave Contributions from employers with the release of the Key Household Income Trends 2025 report in February 2026. For more information, you may refer to the Technical Note on Household Income (https://go.gov.sg/khit2025-tech-note) which explains the concepts and components of our household income coverage.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/17628

Last updated 2 days ago (7 Sep 2026)

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ResidentEmployedPersonsAged15YearsandOverbyLevelofDifficultyinPerformingBasicActivityinSpecificDomainandGrossMonthlyIncomefromWorkCensusofPopulation2020.csv (35 rows, 3 KB)

Number
Text
Total
Text
Below $2,000
Text
$2,000 - $3,999
Text
$4,000 - $5,999
Text
$6,000 - $7,999
Text
$8,000 - $9,999
Text
$10,000 - $11,999
Text
$12,000 & Over
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)17.1%
(Null)17.1%
(Null)17.1%
(Null)17.1%
(Null)20.0%
(Null)20.0%
(Null)22.9%
(Null)17.1%
Total2208358437338526687412667256271177064123274275057
Without A Lot of Difficulty in Performing Any Basic Activity1/2198665432706523840411673255771176838123034274803
No Difficulty in Performing Any Basic Activity1/2055266384724484869390700244038169296117531264109
Some Difficulty in Performing At Least One Basic Activity1/143399479823897120973117337542550310694
Unable to Perform/ with A Lot of Difficulty in At Least One Basic Activity1/969346322846994501225240254
Seeing
Without A Lot of Difficulty2205818436389525974412315256036177008123134274962
No Difficulty2125808413045503702400213248917172183119602268146
Some Difficulty800102334422271121037119482535326816
Unable to Perform/ with A Lot of Difficulty25409507133522355613995
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_672d20b1849a225db17e2cc7b2de57ad"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Employed Persons Aged 15 Years and Over by Level of Difficulty in Performing Basic Activity in Specific Domain and Gross Monthly Income from Work (Census of Population 2020) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_672d20b1849a225db17e2cc7b2de57ad/view

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Created on

22 Oct 2024

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)