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Average Monthly Household Expenditure Among Resident Households by Age Group of Main Income Earner and Type of Dwelling (Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18)

Last updated: 27 Oct 2024, 23:23 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/16495

Data explorer

AverageMonthlyHouseholdExpenditureAmongResidentHouseholdsbyAgeGroupofMainIncomeEarnerandTypeofDwellingHouseholdExpenditureSurvey201718.csv (11 rows, 954 B)

Dollar
Text
Total 1/
Numeric
(HDB Dwellings) Total HDB
Numeric
(HDB Dwellings) 1- & 2-Room Flats 2/
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
Below 2542013944218933754486418160289536
25 - 2945494197217333424214492662608788
30 - 34522947592356371947126050698210351
35 - 39556346142362339344375753787712612
40 - 44604046842070313943366118917613546
45 - 49573345282017317741396026842312047
50 - 54575844751569300841216151966312716
55 - 59471337671423226436895785819710202
60 - 64382329331288189831324619634010618

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
DollarDollarTextDollar-
Total 1/Total1NumericDollar-
(HDB Dwellings) Total HDBHDBDwellings_TotalHDBNumericDollar-
(HDB Dwellings) 1- & 2-Room Flats 2/HDBDwellings_1_and2_RoomFlats2NumericDollar-
(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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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_c92c69c95f6bcbf83c31e132eddc8997"
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. (2024). Average Monthly Household Expenditure Among Resident Households by Age Group of Main Income Earner and Type of Dwelling (Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 5, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_c92c69c95f6bcbf83c31e132eddc8997/view

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Created on

27 Oct 2024

Licence

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

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)