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Teachers in Schools - Length of Service and Age

Teachers In Schools - Length of Service

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Teachers In Schools - Length of Service

Data from Jan 1987 to Jan 2023

Last updated: 05 Dec 2024, 09:28 SGT

MOE (Ministry of Education)

(1) Length of Service is calculated based on officers' latest employment episode (i.e., for officers who are re-appointed/re-employed, their length of service is zeroised and calculated based on the date of their re-appointment/re-employment).

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TeachersInSchoolsLengthofService.csv (1.6K rows, 57.2 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sex Text	Level Of School Text	Length Of Service Text	No Of Teachers Text
(Null)0.0% 19872.7% 19882.7% 19892.7% 19902.7%	(Null)0.0% F50.0% MF50.0%	(Null)0.0% PRIMARY33.3% SECONDARY33.3% PRE-UNIVERSITY33.3%	(Null)0.0% 0 - 4 YEARS14.3% 5 - 9 YEARS14.3% 10 - 14 YEARS14.3% 15 - 19 YEARS14.3%	(Null)0.0%
1987	MF	PRIMARY	0 - 4 YEARS	885
1987	F	PRIMARY	0 - 4 YEARS	774
1987	MF	SECONDARY	0 - 4 YEARS	1655
1987	F	SECONDARY	0 - 4 YEARS	1301
1987	MF	PRE-UNIVERSITY	0 - 4 YEARS	565
1987	F	PRE-UNIVERSITY	0 - 4 YEARS	377
1987	MF	PRIMARY	5 - 9 YEARS	1053
1987	F	PRIMARY	5 - 9 YEARS	961
1987	MF	SECONDARY	5 - 9 YEARS	1626
1987	F	SECONDARY	5 - 9 YEARS	1320

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sex	sex	Text	-	-
Level Of School	level_of_school	Text	-	-
Length Of Service	length_of_service	Text	-	-
No Of Teachers	no_of_teachers	Text	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_9532ab3d45acbc29f1049932e4b27ad1"
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.

Ministry of Education. (2016). Teachers In Schools - Length of Service (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 12, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_9532ab3d45acbc29f1049932e4b27ad1/view

About this dataset

Contact

song_boon_khing@moe.gov.sg vivian_lin@moe.gov.sg

Created on

07 Jan 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)