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Economy

Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Religion, Marital Status and Sex (General Household Survey 2015)

Last updated: 04 Jun 2025, 23:00 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 09/03/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: General Household Survey 2015

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8227

Data explorer

ResidentPopulationAged15YearsandOverbyReligionMaritalStatusandSexGeneralHouseholdSurvey2015.csv (12 rows, 1.7 KB)

Thousands
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
(Total) Males
Numeric
(Total) Females
Numeric
(Single) Total
Numeric
(Single) Males
Numeric
(Single) Females
Numeric
(Married) Total
Numeric
(Married) Males
Numeric
(Married) Females
Numeric
(Widowed) Total
Numeric
(Widowed) Males
Text
(Widowed) Females
Numeric
(Divorced/Separated) Total
Numeric
(Divorced/Separated) Males
Text
(Divorced/Separated) 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)16.7%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)8.3%
(Null)0.0%
Total3275.91589.61686.31034.5533.2501.31945.6984.7960.9172.128.9143.2123.642.780.9
No Religion604.5317.2287.3236.5128.9107.6331.1175.4155.714.84.210.622.28.713.4
With Religion2671.41272.41399798.1404.3393.81614.5809.4805.2157.324.8132.6101.43467.5
Buddhism1087.3522.4564.9310160.6149.4669.7336.6333.264.610.354.342.914.928
Taoism1/326.4160.7165.687.645.442.2202.8107.395.426.94.222.893.85.2
Islam459.8226233.8155.184.370.8258.2129.9128.325.55.220.4216.614.4
Hinduism162.581.381.236.118.817.3113.560.253.47.90.9751.53.5
Sikhism11.55.26.33.21.51.76.83.53.41na0.90.50.20.3
Christianity616.1272.8343.3203.692.4111.2358.7169.3189.4314.126.822.86.915.9
Catholic220.998.1122.870.633.537.1129.36069.311.71.510.29.33.16.2

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
ThousandsThousandsTextThousands-
(Total) TotalTotal_TotalNumericThousands-
(Total) MalesTotal_MalesNumericThousands-
(Total) FemalesTotal_FemalesNumericThousands-
(Single) TotalSingle_TotalNumericThousands-
(Single) MalesSingle_MalesNumericThousands-
(Single) FemalesSingle_FemalesNumericThousands-
(Married) TotalMarried_TotalNumericThousands-
(Married) MalesMarried_MalesNumericThousands-
(Married) FemalesMarried_FemalesNumericThousands-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_cca3f7516cc8a76cfbcbce5fcefbfa1c"
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. (2023). Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Religion, Marital Status and Sex (General Household Survey 2015) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 1, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_cca3f7516cc8a76cfbcbce5fcefbfa1c/view

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Created on

01 Nov 2023

Licence

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

Agency

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)