Resident Households by Monthly Household Expenditure and Household Size (Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18)

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Resident Households by Monthly Household Expenditure and Household Size (Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 31/07/2019

Update Frequency: 5 years

Survey period: Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/16497

Last updated 27 Oct 2024

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ResidentHouseholdsbyMonthlyHouseholdExpenditureandHouseholdSizeHouseholdExpenditureSurvey201718.csv (14 rows, 1.2 KB)

Per Cent Text	Total Numeric	(Household Size (Persons)) 1 Numeric	(Household Size (Persons)) 2 Numeric	(Household Size (Persons)) 3 Numeric	(Household Size (Persons)) 4 Numeric	(Household Size (Persons)) 5 Numeric	(Household Size (Persons)) 6 or More Numeric	Average Household Size (Persons) Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)14.3%
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	3.2
Below 1,000	7.2	34.1	8.1	1.3	0.5	0.2	0.1	1.4
1,000 - 1,999	16.2	29.6	31.1	15.6	5.1	2	1.4	2.2
2,000 - 2,999	15.7	15.1	20.3	19.5	13.7	10	7.5	2.9
3,000 - 3,999	13.7	7.6	12.1	18.5	17.2	12.1	9.3	3.3
4,000 - 4,999	11.5	5.9	9.7	12.5	14.8	13.9	11.4	3.5
5,000 - 5,999	8.2	2.5	5.9	9.6	11.5	10.9	8.5	3.6
6,000 - 7,999	11.5	2.8	6.3	11.4	17	18.6	17.4	3.9
8,000 - 9,999	6.4	1.2	3	5.9	7.6	12.8	14.3	4.2
10,000 - 11,999	3.8	0.9	1.2	2.6	5.9	6.8	9.5	4.3

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Per Cent	PerCent	Text	Per Cent	-
Total	Total	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Household Size (Persons)) 1	HouseholdSize_Persons_1	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Household Size (Persons)) 2	HouseholdSize_Persons_2	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Household Size (Persons)) 3	HouseholdSize_Persons_3	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Household Size (Persons)) 4	HouseholdSize_Persons_4	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Household Size (Persons)) 5	HouseholdSize_Persons_5	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Household Size (Persons)) 6 or More	HouseholdSize_Persons_6orMore	Numeric	Per Cent	-
Average Household Size (Persons)	AverageHouseholdSize_Persons	Text	Per Cent	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_832f3dbf5ffd55ed50cbd8fefa2c2e80"
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 Households by Monthly Household Expenditure and Household Size (Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_832f3dbf5ffd55ed50cbd8fefa2c2e80/view

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