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Collection: Public Service Staff Strength (Civil Service & Statutory Board)

Dataset: 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 Executive	Civil Service	2024	25710
Junior Executive	Statutory Board	2024	10243
Senior Executive & above	Civil Service	2024	61021
Senior Executive & above	Statutory Board	2024	57094
Junior Executive	Civil Service	2010	35676
Senior Executive & above	Civil Service	2010	40160
Daily Rated Employees (DREs)	Statutory Board	2010	879
Junior Executive	Statutory Board	2010	18969
Senior Executive & above	Statutory Board	2010	32474
Junior Executive	Civil Service	2011	35583

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Executive Level	executive_level	Text	-	-
Public Service Sector	public_service_sector	Text	-	-
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Staff Strength	staff_strength	Numeric	-	-

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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 April 4, 2026 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)