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Resident Working Persons Aged 15 Years and Over by Planning Area and Industry (General Household Survey 2015)

Last updated: 04 Sep 2025, 22:00 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 23/03/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: General Household Survey 2015

Footnotes: Note: Planning areas refer to areas demarcated in the Urban Redevelopment Authority's Master Plan 2014.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8613

Data explorer

ResidentWorkingPersonsAged15YearsandOverbyPlanningAreaandIndustryGeneralHouseholdSurvey2015.csv (30 rows, 3.9 KB)

Thousands
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Total
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Manufacturing
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Construction
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Services- Total
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Services- Wholesale & Retail Trade
Numeric
Services- Transportation & Storage
Numeric
Services- Accommodation & Food Services
Numeric
Services- Information & Communications
Numeric
Services- Financial & Insurance Services
Numeric
Services- Real Estate Services
Numeric
Services- Professional Services
Numeric
Services- Administrative & Support Services
Numeric
Services- Public Administration & Education
Numeric
Services- Health & Social Services
Numeric
Services- Arts, Entertainment & Recreation
Numeric
Services- Other Community, Social & Personal Services
Numeric
Others1/
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
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Total2151.9239.1110.71778.7364.5187.7139.283.7167.855.4167.2111.5291.5105.937.167.223.4
Ang Mo Kio101.210.25.684.6176.89.63.87.32.56.96.312.75.224.40.9
Bedok150.313.66129.326.614.49.96.614.14.214.3818.26.71.74.61.3
Bishan49.54.81.842.582.52.92.24.70.95.92.18.23.20.71.20.4
Bukit Batok75.69.14.760.812.36.14.23.14.21.97.24.310.93.31.22.11
Bukit Merah82.25.42.773.514.57.27.43.67.72.65.46.59.34.71.92.80.6
Bukit Panjang80.110.84.363.714.47.54.22.44.61.94.54.312.241.32.31.3
Bukit Timah36.83.30.832.56.41.50.81.44.914.40.76.83.50.50.60.2
Choa Chu Kang97.214.65.575.416.48.14.93.25.32.37.74.313.85.21.32.91.7
Clementi45.94.1239.47.43.52.823.71.24.72.77.42.30.51.40.5

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Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
ThousandsThousandsTextThousands-
TotalTotalNumericThousands-
ManufacturingManufacturingNumericThousands-
ConstructionConstructionNumericThousands-
Services- TotalServices_TotalNumericThousands-
Services- Wholesale & Retail TradeServices_WholesaleandRetailTradeNumericThousands-
Services- Transportation & StorageServices_TransportationandStorageNumericThousands-
Services- Accommodation & Food ServicesServices_AccommodationandFoodServicesNumericThousands-
Services- Information & CommunicationsServices_InformationandCommunicationsNumericThousands-
Services- Financial & Insurance ServicesServices_FinancialandInsuranceServicesNumericThousands-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_962495f413f039655f14cb8a59f44317"
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). Resident Working Persons Aged 15 Years and Over by Planning Area and Industry (General Household Survey 2015) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 18, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_962495f413f039655f14cb8a59f44317/view

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Created on

12 Jan 2024

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

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)