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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%
Total100100100100100100
Below 1,0007.220.77.94.11.81.5
1,000 - 1,99916.229.919.312.411.28
2,000 - 2,99915.720.52115.611.110.4
3,000 - 3,99913.712.216.817.213.29.2
4,000 - 4,99911.56.61313.512.711.5
5,000 - 5,9998.246.810.711.28.2
6,000 - 7,99911.53.28.313.316.716.1
8,000 - 9,9996.41.53.26.91010.4
10,000 - 11,9993.80.71.62.95.18.5

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
Per CentPerCentTextPer Cent-
TotalTotalNumericPer Cent-
(Income Quintile 2/) 1st - 20th 3/IncomeQuintile2_1st_20th3NumericPer Cent-
(Income Quintile 2/) 21st - 40thIncomeQuintile2_21st_40thNumericPer Cent-
(Income Quintile 2/) 41st - 60thIncomeQuintile2_41st_60thNumericPer Cent-
(Income Quintile 2/) 61st - 80thIncomeQuintile2_61st_80thNumericPer Cent-
(Income Quintile 2/) 81st - 100thIncomeQuintile2_81st_100thNumericPer 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

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

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 July 3, 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.

Agency

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)