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Public Service Staff Strength (Civil Service & Statutory Board)

Overall Staff Strength

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Overall Staff Strength

Data from Jan 2010 to Jan 2024

Last updated: 30 Jun 2025, 09:54 SGT

PSD (Public Service Division)

Data consists of both Civil Service (CS) and Statutory Board (SB).

Staff strength by Year

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OverallStaffStrength.csv (71 rows, 3.5 KB)

Executive Level
Text
Public Service Sector
Text
Year
Year (YYYY)
Staff Strength
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
Junior Executive42.3%
Senior Executive & above42.3%
Daily Rated Employees (DREs)15.5%
(Null)0.0%
Statutory Board57.7%
Civil Service42.3%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Junior ExecutiveCivil Service202425710
Junior ExecutiveStatutory Board202410243
Senior Executive & aboveCivil Service202461021
Senior Executive & aboveStatutory Board202457094
Junior ExecutiveCivil Service201035676
Senior Executive & aboveCivil Service201040160
Daily Rated Employees (DREs)Statutory Board2010879
Junior ExecutiveStatutory Board201018969
Senior Executive & aboveStatutory Board201032474
Junior ExecutiveCivil Service201135583

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
Executive Levelexecutive_levelText--
Public Service Sectorpublic_service_sectorText--
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
Staff Strengthstaff_strengthNumeric--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_906df66867223c65d5a4d23b3fa61299"
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.

Public Service Division. (2017). Overall Staff Strength (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 17, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_906df66867223c65d5a4d23b3fa61299/view

About this dataset

Contact

data_office@psd.gov.sg

Created on

21 Jun 2017

Licence

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

Agency

PSD (Public Service Division)