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Average Monthly Household Online Expenditure Among Resident Households by Type of Goods and Services (Broad) and Income Quintile (Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18)

Last updated: 27 Oct 2024, 23:23 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 31/07/2019

Update Frequency: 5 years

Survey period: Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/16517

Data explorer

AverageMonthlyHouseholdOnlineExpenditureAmongResidentHouseholdsbyTypeofGoodsandServicesBroadandIncomeQuintileHouseholdExpenditureSurvey201718.csv (15 rows, 1.1 KB)

Dollar
Text
Total
Text
(Income Quintile 1/) 1st - 20th 4/
Text
(Income Quintile 1/) 21st - 40th
Numeric
(Income Quintile 1/) 41st - 60th
Text
(Income Quintile 1/) 61st - 80th
Text
(Income Quintile 1/) 81st - 100th
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)6.7%
(Null)13.3%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)6.7%
(Null)6.7%
(Null)6.7%
Total244.166.6130.4222.3288.4512.5
Food and Non-Alcoholic Beverages7.81.3410.19.814.1
Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco0.6na0.10.511.3
Clothing and Footwear9.52.18.811.211.314
Housing and Utilities0.30.10.20.40.20.6
Furnishings, Household Equipment and Routine Household Maintenance6.73.43.36.4614.4
Health2.212.51.72.53.2
Transport110.832.359.798.6129.5233.8
Communication2.61.11.22.53.25.2
Recreation and Culture31.47.616.1254563.1

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
DollarDollarTextDollar-
TotalTotalTextDollar-
(Income Quintile 1/) 1st - 20th 4/IncomeQuintile1_1st_20th4TextDollar-
(Income Quintile 1/) 21st - 40thIncomeQuintile1_21st_40thNumericDollar-
(Income Quintile 1/) 41st - 60thIncomeQuintile1_41st_60thTextDollar-
(Income Quintile 1/) 61st - 80thIncomeQuintile1_61st_80thTextDollar-
(Income Quintile 1/) 81st - 100thIncomeQuintile1_81st_100thTextDollar-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_a5523e2bf61e9719aa328984493c8247"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Average Monthly Household Online Expenditure Among Resident Households by Type of Goods and Services (Broad) and Income Quintile (Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 18, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_a5523e2bf61e9719aa328984493c8247/view

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Created on

27 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)