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Economy

Resident Economically Inactive Persons Aged 15 Years and Over by Highest Qualification Attained, Economic Activity Status and Sex (Census of Population 2000)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 31/03/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2000

Footnotes: Note: Data exclude students.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8977

Last updated 18 days ago (22 Aug 2026)

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ResidentEconomicallyInactivePersonsAged15YearsandOverbyHighestQualificationAttainedEconomicActivityStatusandSexCensusofPopulation2000.csv (9 rows, 1.1 KB)

Number
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
(Total) Males
Numeric
(Total) Females
Numeric
(Homemakers) Total
Numeric
(Homemakers) Males
Text
(Homemakers) Females
Numeric
(Retired) Total
Numeric
(Retired) Males
Numeric
(Retired) 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)11.1%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total700816176002524813361572649360922247827125711122116914174964241775
No Qualification2895017151121799011677022611654415339161542918491934097439597
Primary118755299438881172964125728393557323815117581021760034214
Lower Secondary73262165665669648546944845215070104434626964760293618
Secondary1301673034299825805621258043623995162637732256111395311657
Upper Secondary4278412681301042105624210328781604927331294766086339
Polytechnic10726594747793188na318812711065206626748821385
Other Diploma13778351910259678019676144772643183425228571665
University21842549416348117053611669527038911379486715673300
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_d76c49fc8821ae73d9dde31e3bbf41b5"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Economically Inactive Persons Aged 15 Years and Over by Highest Qualification Attained, Economic Activity Status and Sex (Census of Population 2000) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_d76c49fc8821ae73d9dde31e3bbf41b5/view

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Created on

26 Oct 2024

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)