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Housing

Percentage of HDB Households by Flat Type and Ethnic Group

Data from Jan 2008 to Dec 2018Updated 7 months ago

HDB (Housing & Development Board)

Percentage by Ethnic group

Data explorer

PercentageofHDBHouseholdsbyFlatTypeandEthnicGroup.csv (90 rows, 2.1 KB)

SHS Year Year (YYYY)	Ethnic Group Text	Flat Type Text	Percentage Numeric (Percentage)
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2008	Chinese	1-room	2
2008	Malay	1-room	2.7
2008	Indian	1-room	2.8
2008	Others	1-room	2.1
2008	All	1-room	2.1
2008	Chinese	2-room	2.9
2008	Malay	2-room	5.1
2008	Indian	2-room	3.9
2008	Others	2-room	4.3
2008	All	2-room	3.3

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
SHS Year	shs_year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Ethnic Group	ethnic_group	Text	-	-
Flat Type	flat_type	Text	-	-
Percentage	percentage	Numeric (Percentage)	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_6f0b9b4e1a64a09f5b76c8a2c1234d2d"
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). Percentage of HDB Households by Flat Type and Ethnic Group (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved January 15, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_6f0b9b4e1a64a09f5b76c8a2c1234d2d/view

About this dataset

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Created on

30 Jun 2016

Licence

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

Agency

HDB (Housing & Development Board)

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