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Sample Household Survey: Age of HDB Resident Population, by Ethnic Group and Flat Type

Age of HDB Resident Population by Ethnic Group

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Age of HDB Resident Population by Ethnic Group

Data from Jan 2008 to Dec 2018Updated 12 months ago

HDB (Housing & Development Board)

Percentage by Ethnic group

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AgeofHDBResidentPopulationbyEthnicGroup.csv (45 rows, 1.1 KB)

Shs year Year (YYYY)	Ethnic group Text	Age group Text	Percentage Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2008	Chinese	Below 15	15.8
2008	Chinese	15-64	73.2
2008	Chinese	65 & above	11
2008	Malay	Below 15	23.7
2008	Malay	15-64	70.2
2008	Malay	65 & above	6.1
2008	Indian	Below 15	22.3
2008	Indian	15-64	71.2
2008	Indian	65 & above	6.5
2008	Others	Below 15	21.1

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Shs year	shs_year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Ethnic group	ethnic_group	Text	-	-
Age group	age_group	Text	-	-
Percentage	percentage	Numeric	%	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_c5f8097e161feac48fd76a8577844fc9"
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). Age of HDB Resident Population by Ethnic Group (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved May 23, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_c5f8097e161feac48fd76a8577844fc9/view

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Created on

28 Jun 2016

Licence

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

Agency

HDB (Housing & Development Board)