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Economy

Resident Working Persons Aged 15 Years and Over by Occupation, Occupational Status and Sex (Census of Population 2000)

Last updated: 21 Jun 2025, 23:01 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 31/03/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2000

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8934

Data explorer

ResidentWorkingPersonsAged15YearsandOverbyOccupationOccupationalStatusandSexCensusofPopulation2000.csv (11 rows, 1.8 KB)

Number
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
(Total) Males
Numeric
(Total) Females
Numeric
(Employers) Total
Text
(Employers) Males
Text
(Employers) Females
Text
(Own Account Workers) Total
Text
(Own Account Workers) Males
Text
(Own Account Workers) Females
Text
(Employees) Total
Numeric
(Employees) Males
Numeric
(Employees) Females
Numeric
(Unpaid Family Workers) Total
Text
(Unpaid Family Workers) Males
Text
(Unpaid Family Workers) Females
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)9.1%
(Null)9.1%
(Null)9.1%
(Null)9.1%
(Null)9.1%
(Null)18.2%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)27.3%
(Null)27.3%
(Null)27.3%
Total148257988948259309785785680431774212124997626236221267965721531546434758022825298
Senior Officials & Managers21183515898052855625915148411107201471658335641290979091338184nanana
Professionals15026586375638905002367413282839175010891424248095161473nanana
Associate Professionals & Technicians28336115392812943331271954117317666112076459262523140757121766451035
Clerical Workers21358849485164103230190408945483462116214867316294884474770
Service & Sales Workers18296610686776099915256833469252441641288321443138345460859425813182940
Agricultural & Fishery Workers115810341241061015303303na70662086431033
Production Craftsmen & Related Workers10675397569918429842749234120441120384191435834557980290161129
Plant & Machine Operators & Assemblers178752130437483151437132311535849351936561411479378047367319142177
Cleaners, Labourers & Related Workers1011495427946870115888527262624427183591947483994354817825681214

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
(Total) TotalTotal_TotalNumericNumber-
(Total) MalesTotal_MalesNumericNumber-
(Total) FemalesTotal_FemalesNumericNumber-
(Employers) TotalEmployers_TotalTextNumber-
(Employers) MalesEmployers_MalesTextNumber-
(Employers) FemalesEmployers_FemalesTextNumber-
(Own Account Workers) TotalOwnAccountWorkers_TotalTextNumber-
(Own Account Workers) MalesOwnAccountWorkers_MalesTextNumber-
(Own Account Workers) FemalesOwnAccountWorkers_FemalesTextNumber-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_a542b6a9a5b54f224ba9a269a519e948"
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.

Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Working Persons Aged 15 Years and Over by Occupation, Occupational Status and Sex (Census of Population 2000) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 3, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_a542b6a9a5b54f224ba9a269a519e948/view

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Created on

26 Oct 2024

Licence

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

Agency

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)