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Collection: Sample Household Survey: Economically Active HDB Resident Population, by Ethnic Group and Flat Type

Dataset: Economically Active HDB Resident Population by Flat Type

Housing

Economically Active HDB Resident Population by Flat Type

HDB (Housing & Development Board)

Data from Jan 2008 to Dec 2018

Last updated 6 Jun 2024

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EconomicallyActiveHDBResidentPopulationbyFlatType.csv (36 rows, 1.1 KB)

SHS Year Year (YYYY)	Flat Type Text	Economically Active Status Text	Number of Persons Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2008	1-room	Employed	17000
2008	1-room	Unemployed	1000
2008	2-room	Employed	29000
2008	2-room	Unemployed	3000
2008	3-room	Employed	300000
2008	3-room	Unemployed	15000
2008	4-room	Employed	610000
2008	4-room	Unemployed	24000
2008	5-room	Employed	391000
2008	5-room	Unemployed	12000

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
SHS Year	shs_year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Flat Type	flat_type	Text	-	-
Economically Active Status	economically_active_status	Text	-	-
Number of Persons	no	Numeric	No. of Persons	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_bdc3b0ce289a7f95309b82454cf2c366"
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). Economically Active HDB Resident Population by Flat Type (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_bdc3b0ce289a7f95309b82454cf2c366/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

27 Jun 2016

Licence

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

Agency

HDB (Housing & Development Board)