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Married Couples in Resident Households by Monthly Income from Work and Labour Force Status of Couple (Census of Population 2020)

Updated 26 days ago

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/17538

Data explorer

MarriedCouplesinResidentHouseholdsbyMonthlyIncomefromWorkandLabourForceStatusofCoupleCensusofPopulation2020.csv (20 rows, 1.1 KB)

Number Text	Total Numeric	Both Husband & Wife Employed Text	Only Husband Employed Text	Only Wife Employed Text	Both Husband & Wife Not Employed Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)5.0%	(Null)5.0%	(Null)5.0%	(Null)90.0% 14834610.0%
Total	977333	513582	242971	72433	148346
Below 1,000	18769	1091	10317	7360	-
1,000 - 1,999	56711	6924	33472	16315	-
2,000 - 2,999	59904	20147	29113	10644	-
3,000 - 3,999	61349	27766	26080	7504	-
4,000 - 4,999	53051	28185	19725	5142	-
5,000 - 5,999	52649	30175	17692	4782	-
6,000 - 6,999	45862	29758	12780	3324	-
7,000 - 7,999	43133	29684	10833	2616	-
8,000 - 8,999	40034	28250	9991	1793	-

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Number	Number	Text	Number	-
Total	Total	Numeric	Number	-
Both Husband & Wife Employed	BothHusbandandWifeEmployed	Text	Number	-
Only Husband Employed	OnlyHusbandEmployed	Text	Number	-
Only Wife Employed	OnlyWifeEmployed	Text	Number	-
Both Husband & Wife Not Employed	BothHusbandandWifeNotEmployed	Text	Number	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_79a62f6b68600a0b86296c686e817cce"
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 Monthly Income from Work and Labour Force Status of Couple (Census of Population 2020) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved May 12, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_79a62f6b68600a0b86296c686e817cce/view

About this dataset

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Created on

22 Oct 2024

Licence

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

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)