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Economy

Resident Households by Household Living Arrangement and Number of Working Persons in Household (General Household Survey 2005)

Last updated: 19 Jun 2025, 23:00 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 28/03/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: General Household Survey 2005

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8726

Data explorer

ResidentHouseholdsbyHouseholdLivingArrangementandNumberofWorkingPersonsinHouseholdGeneralHouseholdSurvey2005.csv (26 rows, 1.9 KB)

Number
Text
Total
Numeric
No Working Person
Text
1 Working Person
Numeric
2 Working Persons
Numeric
3 Working Persons
Text
4 Or More Working Persons
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)3.8%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)7.7%
(Null)11.5%
Total10244581023614030373903199435834383
Couple-Based Households739962451532470553395497882929375
Young Couples96840872242446400655442175
No Children In Household4202528672983068227251035
With Youngest Child Below 12 Years54354561168233307027611140
With Youngest Child Aged 12 Years And Over276266313058na
Others184na60125nana
Middle-Aged Couples3433916624135768174932205745492
No Children In Household3916583112758231071871599
With Youngest Child Below 12 Years22563441019722011511675721624

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
TotalTotalNumericNumber-
No Working PersonNoWorkingPersonTextNumber-
1 Working Person1WorkingPersonNumericNumber-
2 Working Persons2WorkingPersonsNumericNumber-
3 Working Persons3WorkingPersonsTextNumber-
4 Or More Working Persons4OrMoreWorkingPersonsTextNumber-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_c3ff583aee7ef30f01872e35c2c87b8e"
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. (2024). Resident Households by Household Living Arrangement and Number of Working Persons in Household (General Household Survey 2005) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 17, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_c3ff583aee7ef30f01872e35c2c87b8e/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

24 Oct 2024

Licence

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

Agency

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)