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Average Monthly Household Expenditure Among Resident Households by Income Quintile and Type of Dwelling (Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18)

Last updated: 08 Nov 2024, 20:00 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 31/07/2019

Update Frequency: 5 years

Survey period: Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18

Footnotes: Expenditure data exclude imputed rental of owner-occupied accommodation.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/16489

Data explorer

AverageMonthlyHouseholdExpenditureAmongResidentHouseholdsbyIncomeQuintileandTypeofDwellingHouseholdExpenditureSurvey201718.csv (6 rows, 639 B)

Dollar
Text
Total 3/
Numeric
(HDB Dwellings) Total HDB
Numeric
(HDB Dwellings) 1- & 2-Room Flats 4/
Numeric
(HDB Dwellings) 3-Room Flats
Numeric
(HDB Dwellings) 4-Room Flats
Numeric
(HDB Dwellings) 5-Room & Executive Flats
Numeric
Condominiums & Other Apartments
Numeric
Landed Properties
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%
Total490639561545270939335504796310500
1st - 20th 2/25702396136221002629361448594960
21st - 40th37533516170226643646463462817821
41st - 60th48124435179630564314559370928104
61st - 80th582649672665315247356105793410465
81st - 100th757353533043330046866996873213040

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
DollarDollarTextDollar-
Total 3/Total3NumericDollar-
(HDB Dwellings) Total HDBHDBDwellings_TotalHDBNumericDollar-
(HDB Dwellings) 1- & 2-Room Flats 4/HDBDwellings_1_and2_RoomFlats4NumericDollar-
(HDB Dwellings) 3-Room FlatsHDBDwellings_3_RoomFlatsNumericDollar-
(HDB Dwellings) 4-Room FlatsHDBDwellings_4_RoomFlatsNumericDollar-
(HDB Dwellings) 5-Room & Executive FlatsHDBDwellings_5_RoomandExecutiveFlatsNumericDollar-
Condominiums & Other ApartmentsCondominiumsandOtherApartmentsNumericDollar-
Landed PropertiesLandedPropertiesNumericDollar-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_c7c78cfb3d60dd088a3e8b6a7dbc93f5"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2023). Average Monthly Household Expenditure Among Resident Households by Income Quintile and Type of Dwelling (Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 11, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_c7c78cfb3d60dd088a3e8b6a7dbc93f5/view

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Created on

02 Nov 2023

Licence

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

Agency

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)