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

Last updated: 27 Oct 2024, 23:23 SGT

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/16510

Data explorer

ResidentHouseholdsbyMonthlyHouseholdExpenditureandIncomeQuintileHouseholdExpenditureSurvey201718.csv (14 rows, 968 B)

Per Cent Text	Total Numeric	(Income Quintile 2/) 1st - 20th 3/ Numeric	(Income Quintile 2/) 21st - 40th Numeric	(Income Quintile 2/) 41st - 60th Numeric	(Income Quintile 2/) 61st - 80th Numeric	(Income Quintile 2/) 81st - 100th Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100
Below 1,000	7.2	20.7	7.9	4.1	1.8	1.5
1,000 - 1,999	16.2	29.9	19.3	12.4	11.2	8
2,000 - 2,999	15.7	20.5	21	15.6	11.1	10.4
3,000 - 3,999	13.7	12.2	16.8	17.2	13.2	9.2
4,000 - 4,999	11.5	6.6	13	13.5	12.7	11.5
5,000 - 5,999	8.2	4	6.8	10.7	11.2	8.2
6,000 - 7,999	11.5	3.2	8.3	13.3	16.7	16.1
8,000 - 9,999	6.4	1.5	3.2	6.9	10	10.4
10,000 - 11,999	3.8	0.7	1.6	2.9	5.1	8.5

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Per Cent	PerCent	Text	Per Cent	-
Total	Total	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Income Quintile 2/) 1st - 20th 3/	IncomeQuintile2_1st_20th3	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Income Quintile 2/) 21st - 40th	IncomeQuintile2_21st_40th	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Income Quintile 2/) 41st - 60th	IncomeQuintile2_41st_60th	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Income Quintile 2/) 61st - 80th	IncomeQuintile2_61st_80th	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Income Quintile 2/) 81st - 100th	IncomeQuintile2_81st_100th	Numeric	Per Cent	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_855146b45dc2087867ee712699830f65"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Households by Monthly Household Expenditure and Income Quintile (Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved October 22, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_855146b45dc2087867ee712699830f65/view

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Created on

27 Oct 2024

Licence

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

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)