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Economy

Resident Working Persons Aged 15 Years and Over by Highest Qualification Attained, Ethnic Group 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

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8922

Last updated 19 days ago (21 Aug 2026)

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ResidentWorkingPersonsAged15YearsandOverbyHighestQualificationAttainedEthnicGroupandSexCensusofPopulation2000.csv (9 rows, 1.4 KB)

Number
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
(Total) Males
Numeric
(Total) Females
Numeric
(Chinese) Total
Numeric
(Chinese) Males
Numeric
(Chinese) Females
Numeric
(Malays) Total
Numeric
(Malays) Males
Numeric
(Malays) Females
Numeric
(Indians) Total
Numeric
(Indians) Males
Numeric
(Indians) 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)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%
Total1482579889482593097118923869890749033016996411074659219105845692473659817532105826950
No Qualification1419738707554898117291716824561016017102815737818149313250483182302
Primary14410697808462981119977506436933209461550054451047769073570686336350
Lower Secondary1605671095305103712141581704397112614218849729311811830435071199673526
Secondary405838230724175114306927168617138310644454077923665303491890911440411724191698
Upper Secondary17549210278272710135401778515755024483153059179134048390501422031236967
Polytechnic12508779801452871125667138441182729447262568440931681242818523295
Other Diploma9463643491511458079435624451705518270428136758421625421565946619
University234880138272966092028461169808586551192602251820456144236033646042672193
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_ecbdfec9a920e95ea4443045c5b5964c"
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, Ethnic Group and Sex (Census of Population 2000) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_ecbdfec9a920e95ea4443045c5b5964c/view

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Created on

26 Oct 2024

Licence

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

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)