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Resident Households by Monthly Household Income and Number of Working Persons (Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18)

Last updated: 09 Nov 2024, 20:00 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/16504

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ResidentHouseholdsbyMonthlyHouseholdIncomeandNumberofWorkingPersonsHouseholdExpenditureSurvey201718.csv (15 rows, 936 B)

Per Cent
Text
Total
Numeric
No Working Person
Numeric
(Employed Households by Number of Working Persons) 1
Numeric
(Employed Households by Number of Working Persons) 2
Text
(Employed Households by Number of Working Persons) 3 or More
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)6.7%
(Null)6.7%
Total100100100100100
Below 1,0006461.5nana
1,000 - 1,9996.127.77.60.20.1
2,000 - 2,9996.310.712.31.60.3
3,000 - 3,9996.44.711.44.70.5
4,000 - 4,9996.32.99.86.21.4
5,000 - 5,9995.81.68.163.1
6,000 - 7,99911.32.813.112.610.3
8,000 - 9,9999.51.29.211.511.8
10,000 - 11,99980.46.39.813.5

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
Per CentPerCentTextPer Cent-
TotalTotalNumericPer Cent-
No Working PersonNoWorkingPersonNumericPer Cent-
(Employed Households by Number of Working Persons) 1EmployedHouseholdsbyNumberofWorkingPersons_1NumericPer Cent-
(Employed Households by Number of Working Persons) 2EmployedHouseholdsbyNumberofWorkingPersons_2TextPer Cent-
(Employed Households by Number of Working Persons) 3 or MoreEmployedHouseholdsbyNumberofWorkingPersons_3orMoreTextPer Cent-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_b870d8efff464b53db360e8d49f01b9e"
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. (2023). Resident Households by Monthly Household Income and Number of Working Persons (Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 20, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_b870d8efff464b53db360e8d49f01b9e/view

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Created on

09 Nov 2023

Licence

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

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)