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Economy

Number Of Permanent Secretaries In Civil Service By Sex, Annual

Data from Jan 2013 to Dec 2023

Last updated: 10 Jul 2025, 22:00 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: PUBLIC SERVICE DIVISION, PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE

Data Last Updated: 11/07/2024

Update Frequency: Annual

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/TS/M183631

Data explorer

NumberOfPermanentSecretariesInCivilServiceBySexAnnual.csv (3 rows, 310 B)

Data Series
Text
2023
Numeric
2022
Numeric
2021
Numeric
2020
Numeric
2019
Numeric
2018
Numeric
2017
Numeric
2016
Numeric
2015
Numeric
2014
Numeric
2013
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%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Permanent Secretaries In Civil Service2928282525202122222320
Males2321201919151616171714
Females67866556566

Column legend

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Data type
Unit of measure
Description
Data SeriesDataSeriesTextNumber-
20232023NumericNumber-
20222022NumericNumber-
20212021NumericNumber-
20202020NumericNumber-
20192019NumericNumber-
20182018NumericNumber-
20172017NumericNumber-
20162016NumericNumber-
20152015NumericNumber-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_85d18b591e96f808f8eb502ec9f04349"
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). Number Of Permanent Secretaries In Civil Service By Sex, Annual (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 16, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_85d18b591e96f808f8eb502ec9f04349/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

22 Oct 2024

Licence

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

Agency

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)