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Economy

Resident Working Persons Aged 15 Years and Over by Industry, Ethnic Group and Sex (General Household Survey 2005)

Last updated: 20 Jun 2025, 20:00 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/8770

Data explorer

ResidentWorkingPersonsAged15YearsandOverbyIndustryEthnicGroupandSexGeneralHouseholdSurvey2005.csv (11 rows, 1.7 KB)

Number
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
(Total) Males
Numeric
(Total) Females
Numeric
(Chinese) Total
Numeric
(Chinese) Males
Numeric
(Chinese) Females
Numeric
(Malays) Total
Numeric
(Malays) Males
Numeric
(Malays) Females
Numeric
(Indians) Total
Numeric
(Indians) Males
Numeric
(Indians) Females
Numeric
(Others) Total
Numeric
(Others) Males
Numeric
(Others) Females
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total16472949596896876051298942737840561102184758115758690001269668447642490366282161515013
Manufacturing2751761709631042132210651346198644629412184761093619304143074997539535611834
Construction816266728314343715575865312905481541796353655317947515991271328
Wholesale & Retail Trade3036331699611336712595451422371173082005711665839218077130415036595430182936
Hotels & Restaurants103199494615373882237388254341212497558269146722429824241742755987
Transport & Storage163085126567365181183439072627618293532349958541274610440230626421902741
Information & Communications64492371472734549260274872177351712694247679725570240220891396693
Financial Services1021344451357621861383555150587637528163559685944462414276117001061
Business Services2070431147639228115205777679743782919019845934418804128135991699344252568
Community, Social & Personal Services329067165429163638247019123672123347436842326020424310881505716031727634403836

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
(Total) TotalTotal_TotalNumericNumber-
(Total) MalesTotal_MalesNumericNumber-
(Total) FemalesTotal_FemalesNumericNumber-
(Chinese) TotalChinese_TotalNumericNumber-
(Chinese) MalesChinese_MalesNumericNumber-
(Chinese) FemalesChinese_FemalesNumericNumber-
(Malays) TotalMalays_TotalNumericNumber-
(Malays) MalesMalays_MalesNumericNumber-
(Malays) FemalesMalays_FemalesNumericNumber-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_c72d737ae813325f19115ed39ec5b7b7"
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 Working Persons Aged 15 Years and Over by Industry, Ethnic Group and Sex (General Household Survey 2005) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 4, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_c72d737ae813325f19115ed39ec5b7b7/view

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Created on

24 Oct 2024

Licence

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

Agency

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)