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Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Religion, Residential Status and Sex (General Household Survey 2015)

Updated 4 days ago

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 09/03/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: General Household Survey 2015

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8226

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ResidentPopulationAged15YearsandOverbyReligionResidentialStatusandSexGeneralHouseholdSurvey2015.csv (12 rows, 1.1 KB)

Thousands
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
(Total) Males
Numeric
(Total) Females
Numeric
(Singapore Citizens) Total
Numeric
(Singapore Citizens) Males
Numeric
(Singapore Citizens) Females
Numeric
(Permanent Residents) Total
Numeric
(Permanent Residents) Males
Numeric
(Permanent Residents) 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%
Total3275.91589.61686.32828.31393.11435.2447.6196.5251
No Religion604.5317.2287.351627823888.539.249.3
With Religion2671.41272.413992312.31115.11197.2359.1157.3201.7
Buddhism1087.3522.4564.9941.8464.5477.3145.557.987.6
Taoism1/326.4160.7165.6304.4151.6152.821.99.112.8
Islam459.8226233.8435.2217218.224.5915.5
Hinduism162.581.381.297.947.350.664.634.130.5
Sikhism11.55.26.310.34.65.71.20.60.7
Christianity616.1272.8343.3516.1226.9289.210045.954
Catholic220.998.1122.8173.876.597.347.121.725.4

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Data type
Unit of measure
Description
ThousandsThousandsTextThousands-
(Total) TotalTotal_TotalNumericThousands-
(Total) MalesTotal_MalesNumericThousands-
(Total) FemalesTotal_FemalesNumericThousands-
(Singapore Citizens) TotalSingaporeCitizens_TotalNumericThousands-
(Singapore Citizens) MalesSingaporeCitizens_MalesNumericThousands-
(Singapore Citizens) FemalesSingaporeCitizens_FemalesNumericThousands-
(Permanent Residents) TotalPermanentResidents_TotalNumericThousands-
(Permanent Residents) MalesPermanentResidents_MalesNumericThousands-
(Permanent Residents) FemalesPermanentResidents_FemalesNumericThousands-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_b142ed0b2f1aeac586a7e3ab603f0983"
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. (2023). Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Religion, Residential Status and Sex (General Household Survey 2015) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved January 15, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_b142ed0b2f1aeac586a7e3ab603f0983/view

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Created on

01 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)

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