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Economy

Resident Economically Inactive Persons Aged 15 Years and Over by Marital Status, Economic Activity Status and Sex (General Household Survey 2005)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 29/03/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: General Household Survey 2005

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8835

Last updated 26 days ago (20 Aug 2026)

Updated every 10 years

Data explorer

ResidentEconomicallyInactivePersonsAged15YearsandOverbyMaritalStatusEconomicActivityStatusandSexGeneralHouseholdSurvey2005.csv (5 rows, 902 B)

Number
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
(Total) Males
Numeric
(Total) Females
Numeric
(Homemakers) Total
Numeric
(Homemakers) Males
Numeric
(Homemakers) Females
Numeric
(Retired) Total
Numeric
(Retired) Males
Numeric
(Retired) Females
Numeric
(Students) Total
Text
(Students) Males
Text
(Students) Females
Text
(Others) Total
Numeric
(Others) Males
Numeric
(Others) Females
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)20.0%
(Null)40.0%
(Null)20.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total102548334748667799832308645253185612700921269061431862693771366401327371629287941483514
Single351669185183166486677591358611165859035755266242135522130720669954284524150
Married542981142026400955290014334828666617278810487667912305411181936771243268444440
Widowed11228815148971402097719320783786071348965118nanana12704146611238
Divorced/Separated18546512913417532070525070392639440181na81610424203685
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_97084310f321ebbf2e3e166ae72ea051"
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 Economically Inactive Persons Aged 15 Years and Over by Marital Status, Economic Activity Status and Sex (General Household Survey 2005) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 15, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_97084310f321ebbf2e3e166ae72ea051/view

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Created on

26 Oct 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)