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Education

Percentage of P1 Cohort who Progressed to Post-Secondary Education

Data from Jan 1995 to Jan 2023Updated about 1 month ago

MOE (Ministry of Education)

(1) Refers to the year in which a typical student in that particular cohort would progress to post-secondary education programmes (i.e., 10 years after P1).

(2) The figures include Singapore Citizens (SC) and Permanent Residents (PR) only, and exclude International Students (IS).

(3) Figures include participation in Junior Colleges, Millennia Institute, Polytechnics, Institute of Technical Education, LASALLE College of the Arts, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and other private education institutions, and take into account students who have left the country. From 2015 onwards, figures also include participation in Privately-Funded Schools and Foreign System Schools.

(4) Figures for the last 5 years are preliminary estimates as these cohorts have not been fully tracked.

Percentage by Year

Data explorer

PercentageofP1CohortwhoProgressedtoPostSecondaryEducation.csv (145 rows, 2.4 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Race
Text
Percentage
Text
(Null)0.0%
19953.4%
19963.4%
19973.4%
19983.4%
(Null)0.0%
All20.0%
Malay20.0%
Indian20.0%
Others20.0%
(Null)3.4%
1995All67.7
1996All71.3
1997All72.9
1998All76.3
1999All78.2
2000All83.8
2001All86.2
2002All87.6
2003All88
2004All89.5

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
RaceraceText--
PercentagepercentageText--
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_d9c3dc47a770f8eb2f31432681558f36"
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.

Ministry of Education. (2016). Percentage of P1 Cohort who Progressed to Post-Secondary Education (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved January 15, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_d9c3dc47a770f8eb2f31432681558f36/view

About this dataset

Contact

song_boon_khing@moe.gov.sgvivian_lin@moe.gov.sg

Created on

05 Jan 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)

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