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Average Monthly Household Expenditure Among Resident Households by Type of Goods and Services and Working Status/Occupation of Main Income Earner (Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18)

Updated 6 months ago

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 09/09/2019

Update Frequency: 5 years

Survey period: Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/16632

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AverageMonthlyHouseholdExpenditureAmongResidentHouseholdsbyTypeofGoodsandServicesandWorkingStatusOccupationofMainIncomeEarnerHouseholdExpenditureSurvey201718.csv (176 rows, 18.9 KB)

Dollar
Text
Total
Text
(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Legislators, Senior Officials & Managers
Text
(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Professionals
Text
(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Associate Professionals & Technicians
Text
(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Clerical Support Workers
Text
(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Service & Sales Workers
Text
(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Craftsmen & Related Workers
Text
(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Plant & Machine Operators & Assemblers
Text
(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Cleaners, Labourers & Related Workers
Text
(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Others 1/
Text
Not Working
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)2.8%
(Null)2.3%
(Null)4.0%
(Null)4.0%
(Null)6.3%
(Null)8.0%
(Null)8.0%
(Null)9.1%
(Null)11.9%
(Null)10.2%
(Null)6.8%
TOTAL4906.48075.66238.94748.23499.73502.83351.83006.81789.25407.12704
FOOD AND NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES388.7511.6448.6391.3314.5322.2358.4324.8220.5355.5304.3
FOOD361476.3416.6362.9294.1299.1333.5305204.1337.3278.8
Bread and Cereals69.687.882.973.561.455.466.158.638.564.348.1
Meat60.38264.657.651.851.564.355.938.850.548.3
Fish and Seafood57.372.959.558.249.150.757.852.337.45150.7
Milk, Cheese and Eggs4257.35345.428.536.633.7331952.622.9
Oils and Fats7.79.68.37.866.37.77.94.65.37.2
Fruits47.165.858.544.637.134.734.432.522.34339
Vegetables49.563.955.847.239.341.647.543.531.144.944

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
DollarDollarTextDollar-
TotalTotalTextDollar-
(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Legislators, Senior Officials & ManagersOccupationofMainIncomeEarnerwhoisWorking_Legislators_SeniorOfficialsandManagersTextDollar-
(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) ProfessionalsOccupationofMainIncomeEarnerwhoisWorking_ProfessionalsTextDollar-
(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Associate Professionals & TechniciansOccupationofMainIncomeEarnerwhoisWorking_AssociateProfessionalsandTechniciansTextDollar-
(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Clerical Support WorkersOccupationofMainIncomeEarnerwhoisWorking_ClericalSupportWorkersTextDollar-
(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Service & Sales WorkersOccupationofMainIncomeEarnerwhoisWorking_ServiceandSalesWorkersTextDollar-
(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Craftsmen & Related WorkersOccupationofMainIncomeEarnerwhoisWorking_CraftsmenandRelatedWorkersTextDollar-
(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Plant & Machine Operators & AssemblersOccupationofMainIncomeEarnerwhoisWorking_PlantandMachineOperatorsandAssemblersTextDollar-
(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Cleaners, Labourers & Related WorkersOccupationofMainIncomeEarnerwhoisWorking_Cleaners_LabourersandRelatedWorkersTextDollar-
(Occupation of Main Income Earner who is Working) Others 1/OccupationofMainIncomeEarnerwhoisWorking_Others1TextDollar-
Not WorkingNotWorkingTextDollar-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_a944244d0b1cc4bf846f63dc4345c936"
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. (2023). Average Monthly Household Expenditure Among Resident Households by Type of Goods and Services and Working Status/Occupation of Main Income Earner (Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved May 11, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_a944244d0b1cc4bf846f63dc4345c936/view

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Created on

22 Nov 2023

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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)