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Economy

Average Monthly Household Expenditure Among Resident Households By Type Of Goods And Services, Quinquennial

Data from Jan 1993 to Dec 2023

Last updated: 09 Mar 2026, 20:00 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 28/11/2024

Update Frequency: Quinquennial

Footnotes: Expenditure data include imputed rental of owner-occupied accommodation. Data for 1992/93 exclude 1-person households.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/TS/M212981

Data explorer

AverageMonthlyHouseholdExpenditureAmongResidentHouseholdsByTypeOfGoodsAndServicesQuinquennial.csv (17 rows, 1.5 KB)

Data Series
Text
2023
Numeric
2018
Numeric
2013
Numeric
2008
Numeric
2003
Numeric
1998
Numeric
1993
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total7118.76160.85815.34432.53797.83627.63033.4
Food And Food Serving Services1421.71203.91197.4956.3806.1862.2800.4
Food And Non-Alcoholic Beverages455.9394433.3364.6340.5380.5396.3
Food And Beverage Serving Services965.7809.9764.1591.7465.6481.7404.1
Clothing And Footwear119.6122.9155.6143.1127139.7177.2
Housing And Related Expenditure2122.11703.11730.31165.7916.5875.3712.4
Housing And Utilities1737.51425.61473.6983.6704.1659.1531.2
Imputed Rental Of Owner-Occupied Accommodation1187.79981046.8623.6445.9451.9371.8
Furnishing, Household Equipment And Routine Household Maintenance384.6277.5256.7182.1212.5216.2181.1
Health473.5320.1253211.4163.5121.688.9

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
Data SeriesDataSeriesTextDollar-
20232023NumericDollar-
20182018NumericDollar-
20132013NumericDollar-
20082008NumericDollar-
20032003NumericDollar-
19981998NumericDollar-
19931993NumericDollar-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_7a24e1f85969c45ad68a89f7acf4e7a8"
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). Average Monthly Household Expenditure Among Resident Households By Type Of Goods And Services, Quinquennial (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 4, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_7a24e1f85969c45ad68a89f7acf4e7a8/view

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Created on

22 Oct 2024

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

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)