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

Dataset: Staff Strength by Highest Educational Qualification and Executive Level

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Staff Strength by Highest Educational Qualification and Executive Level

Data from Jan 2010 to Jan 2025

Last updated: 08 May 2026, 16:12 SGT

PSD (Public Service Division)

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

Statutory Board data on Professional Qualification and Other Diploma not available prior to 2014.

Chart (Statutory Board)

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StaffStrengthbyHighestEducationalQualificationandExecutiveLevel.csv (519 rows, 33.2 KB)

Highest Educational Qualification
Text
Executive Level
Text
Public Service Sector
Text
Year
Year (YYYY)
Staff Strength
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
Professional Qualification and Other Diploma13.1%
Degree12.3%
Secondary12.3%
Post Secondary12.3%
(Null)0.0%
Junior Executive50.1%
Senior Executive & above49.9%
(Null)0.0%
Statutory Board50.1%
Civil Service49.9%
(Null)0.0%
20106.2%
20116.2%
20126.2%
20257.5%
(Null)0.0%
Data Not AvailableJunior ExecutiveCivil Service20251844
Data Not AvailableJunior ExecutiveStatutory Board2025534
Data Not AvailableSenior Executive & aboveCivil Service2025156
Data Not AvailableSenior Executive & aboveStatutory Board20252386
DegreeJunior ExecutiveCivil Service20252295
DegreeJunior ExecutiveStatutory Board20251259
DegreeSenior Executive & aboveCivil Service202554697
DegreeSenior Executive & aboveStatutory Board202549741
Lower SecondaryJunior ExecutiveCivil Service2025281
Lower SecondaryJunior ExecutiveStatutory Board2025130
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_912658786c50256c5e7e018cb4c007d9"
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). Staff Strength by Highest Educational Qualification and Executive Level (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 13, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_912658786c50256c5e7e018cb4c007d9/view

About this dataset

Contact

data_office@psd.gov.sg

Created on

23 Jun 2017

Licence

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

Agency

PSD (Public Service Division)