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Sample Household Survey: Employed HDB Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Above by Occupation

Employed HDB Resident Population by Occupation and Sex

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Employed HDB Resident Population by Occupation and Sex

Data from Jan 2013 to Dec 2018

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:50 SGT

HDB (Housing & Development Board)

Employed persons refer to persons aged 15 years old and above who, at the point of survey: (i) worked for one hour or more either for pay or profit; or (ii) have a job or business to return to but were temporarily absent because of illness, injury, breakdown of machinery at workplace, labour management dispute or other reasons. Members of the Singapore Armed Forces including full-time National Servicemen were included in the persons employed, unless otherwise specified

Data explorer

EmployedHDBResidentPopulationbyOccupationandSex.csv (48 rows, 2.4 KB)

SHS year
Year (YYYY)
Sex
Text
Occupation
Text
Percentage
Numeric (Percentage)
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2013MaleLegislator, senior officials & managers15.1
2013MaleProfessionals13.9
2013MaleAssociate professionals & technicians22.8
2013MaleClerical Workers6.4
2013MaleService, shop and market sales workers10.1
2013MaleProduction craftsmen & related workers and plant & machine operators & assemblers18.1
2013MaleCleaners, labourers and related workers7.4
2013MaleOthers6.2
2013FemaleLegislator, senior officials & managers11.1
2013FemaleProfessionals15.1

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
SHS yearshs_yearYear (YYYY)--
SexsexText--
OccupationoccupationText-Please note changes to Singapore Standard Occupational Classification (SSOC) across the series. Occupation captured was based on the prevailing SSOC at the point of survey, i.e., SSOC2010 and SSOC 2015 for SHS2013 and SHS2018 respectively. Excluding non-response cases
PercentagepercentageNumeric (Percentage)--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_9c6271959306ec3d2726f1fc296794e8"
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.

Housing & Development Board. (2021). Employed HDB Resident Population by Occupation and Sex (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 16, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_9c6271959306ec3d2726f1fc296794e8/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

25 Oct 2021

Licence

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

Agency

HDB (Housing & Development Board)