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Resident Working Persons Aged 15 Years and Over by Highest Qualification Attained, Occupational Status and Sex (General Household Survey 2005)

Last updated: 24 Oct 2024, 19:57 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/8765

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ResidentWorkingPersonsAged15YearsandOverbyHighestQualificationAttainedOccupationalStatusandSexGeneralHouseholdSurvey2005.csv (9 rows, 1.5 KB)

Number
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
(Total) Males
Numeric
(Total) Females
Numeric
(Employers) Total
Numeric
(Employers) Males
Numeric
(Employers) Females
Numeric
(Own Account Workers) Total
Numeric
(Own Account Workers) Males
Numeric
(Own Account Workers) Females
Numeric
(Employees) Total
Numeric
(Employees) Males
Numeric
(Employees) Females
Numeric
(Unpaid Family Workers) Total
Numeric
(Unpaid Family Workers) Males
Numeric
(Unpaid Family Workers) 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%
Total16472949596896876057550757767177401453501128533249714151077852126298951132938577472
No Qualification11453668021465155550413914111656812876369289742500943964726779121765
Primary140517902855023278116283152818526156112915111718676584406124617331728
Lower Secondary16953310991059624100627843221925384224602924132102789275317519866801306
Secondary3821322123231698091945814795466336562296016961323237166908156329287510181857
Upper Secondary196485117421790648458634821101426210232403017298610053272454779309470
Polytechnic1767581060447071350274134893846959292540163121959426717814139102
Other Diploma9820543639545663788266111287091424128508717136673504981556490
University3691282120471570811535311564378918488119036584335031188478146553256102154

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Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
(Total) TotalTotal_TotalNumericNumber-
(Total) MalesTotal_MalesNumericNumber-
(Total) FemalesTotal_FemalesNumericNumber-
(Employers) TotalEmployers_TotalNumericNumber-
(Employers) MalesEmployers_MalesNumericNumber-
(Employers) FemalesEmployers_FemalesNumericNumber-
(Own Account Workers) TotalOwnAccountWorkers_TotalNumericNumber-
(Own Account Workers) MalesOwnAccountWorkers_MalesNumericNumber-
(Own Account Workers) FemalesOwnAccountWorkers_FemalesNumericNumber-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_d161c4b2230660265832c5d3cd607f54"
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). Resident Working Persons Aged 15 Years and Over by Highest Qualification Attained, Occupational Status and Sex (General Household Survey 2005) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 9, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_d161c4b2230660265832c5d3cd607f54/view

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Created on

24 Oct 2024

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

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)