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MFT data field description

Data from Apr 2021 to Jul 2021

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:56 SGT

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)

This dataset contains the description of the data fields.

Data explorer

MFTdatafielddescription.csv (101 rows, 9.6 KB)

Var name
Text
Var label
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Respondent_SerialRespondent Serial
Respondent_IDRespondent ID
CountryCountry
YEARbornin_1_sliceQ12. Which year were you born in? Please enter in four digit format, i.e. 1985, 1998, etc.
YEARbornin_1_slice1Q12. Which year were you born in? Please enter in four digit format, i.e. 1985, 1998, etc. - Age
AgeOfRespondentQ12-age . This variable stores the age of the respondent
IndicateAgeQ13. What is your age?
GenderQ14. You are?
OCCSTATUSQ17. What is your current occupational status?
LEVELSCHQ18. What level of schooling are you in now?

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
Var namevar_nameText-Variable name
Var labelvar_labelText-Description of variable
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_b961a43c2f66a144a9d9937e8d63f6dd"
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.

Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth. (2023). MFT data field description (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 25, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_b961a43c2f66a144a9d9937e8d63f6dd/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

11 Apr 2023

Licence

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

Agency

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)