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Collection: Sample Household Survey: Number of Income Earners in HDB Households, by Ethnic Group and Flat Type

Dataset: Number of Income Earners by Ethnic Group

Housing

Number of Income Earners by Ethnic Group

HDB (Housing & Development Board)

Data from Jan 2008 to Dec 2013

Last updated 6 Jun 2024

Percentage by Ethnic group

Data explorer

NumberofIncomeEarnersbyEthnicGroup.csv (50 rows, 1.3 KB)

SHS Year
Year (YYYY)
Ethnic Group
Text
Number of Income Earners
Text
Percentage
Numeric (Percentage)
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2008ChineseNone8
2008MalayNone6.1
2008IndianNone7.2
2008OthersNone7.2
2008AllNone7.7
2008Chinese1 person34.1
2008Malay1 person37.8
2008Indian1 person42.8
2008Others1 person39.1
2008All1 person35.4
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_b794139ebf82ed3e087b22dda685bd84"
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. (2016). Number of Income Earners by Ethnic Group (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_b794139ebf82ed3e087b22dda685bd84/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

30 Jun 2016

Licence

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

Agency

HDB (Housing & Development Board)