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Collection: School Life Expectancy

Dataset: School Life Expectancy by Gender Annual

Education

School Life Expectancy by Gender Annual

MOE (Ministry of Education)

School Life Expectancy is the number of years of education that a 6 year old child can expect to enrol in over his/her lifetime, given the current enrolment rates. It is calculated by taking the sum of enrolment rates across each single year of age starting at age six. Notes: 1) Figures refer to resident population, i.e. Singapore citizens and permanent residents and exclude enrolment in pre-school. 2) Figures from 2005 include private educational institutions.

Data from Jan 2000 to Dec 2020

Last updated 6 Jun 2024

School life expectancy by Year

Data explorer

SchoolLifeExpectancybyGenderAnnual.csv (42 rows, 528 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sex Text	School life expectancy Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2000	M	12.9
2000	F	12.5
2001	M	12.8
2001	F	12.4
2002	M	12.8
2002	F	12.5
2003	M	12.8
2003	F	12.5
2004	M	12.8
2004	F	12.5

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sex	sex	Text	-	-
School life expectancy	school_life_expectancy	Numeric	Number of years	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_f08f294550aeb6af73c9222405c8ec3b"
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. (2017). School Life Expectancy by Gender Annual (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_f08f294550aeb6af73c9222405c8ec3b/view

About this dataset

Contact

song_boon_khing@moe.gov.sg

Created on

10 Aug 2017

Licence

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

Agency

MOE (Ministry of Education)