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Resident Polytechnic Diploma Graduates Aged 15 Years and Over by Field of Study, Country Where Highest Qualification was Attained and Sex (General Household Survey 2015)

Last updated: 02 Aug 2025, 22:00 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 21/04/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: General Household Survey 2015

Footnotes: Note: Data pertain to residents who are not attending educational institutions as full-time students. The data include those who are upgrading their qualifications through part-time courses while working. For more information, please refer to the publication on 'General Household Survey 2015' (www.singstat.gov.sg/find-data/search-by-theme/population/education-language-spoken-and-literacy/publications-and-methodology).

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/9137

Data explorer

ResidentPolytechnicDiplomaGraduatesAged15YearsandOverbyFieldofStudyCountryWhereHighestQualificationwasAttainedandSexGeneralHouseholdSurvey2015.csv (13 rows, 1.2 KB)

Thousands Text	(Total) Total Numeric	(Total) Males Numeric	(Total) Females Numeric	(Singapore) Total Numeric	(Singapore) Males Numeric	(Singapore) Females Numeric	(Outside Singapore) Total Numeric	(Outside Singapore) Males Numeric	(Outside Singapore) 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%
Total	268.1	164.8	103.3	253.8	157.2	96.5	14.3	7.6	6.8
Education	3.7	0.3	3.3	3	0.3	2.7	0.6	0	0.6
Fine & Applied Arts	13.7	6.9	6.7	13.2	6.7	6.5	0.5	0.2	0.2
Humanities & Social Sciences	1.9	0.9	1	1.3	0.8	0.6	0.6	0.1	0.5
Mass Communication & Information Science	3.1	1.3	1.8	2.9	1.3	1.6	0.2	0	0.2
Business & Administration	49.3	18.2	31.1	46.1	17.7	28.3	3.2	0.5	2.8
Natural, Physical, Chemical & Mathematical Sciences	7.4	3.3	4.1	7.2	3.2	4	0.3	0.1	0.2
Health Sciences	13.9	4.1	9.9	13.2	4	9.2	0.7	0.1	0.6
Information Technology	26.7	16.9	9.8	25.8	16.4	9.4	1	0.5	0.5
Architecture, Building & Real Estate	12	7.3	4.7	11.7	7	4.7	0.3	0.3	0

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Thousands	Thousands	Text	Thousands	-
(Total) Total	Total_Total	Numeric	Thousands	-
(Total) Males	Total_Males	Numeric	Thousands	-
(Total) Females	Total_Females	Numeric	Thousands	-
(Singapore) Total	Singapore_Total	Numeric	Thousands	-
(Singapore) Males	Singapore_Males	Numeric	Thousands	-
(Singapore) Females	Singapore_Females	Numeric	Thousands	-
(Outside Singapore) Total	OutsideSingapore_Total	Numeric	Thousands	-
(Outside Singapore) Males	OutsideSingapore_Males	Numeric	Thousands	-
(Outside Singapore) Females	OutsideSingapore_Females	Numeric	Thousands	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_f4fc07360c3a4041b95261204d9769b9"
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 Polytechnic Diploma Graduates Aged 15 Years and Over by Field of Study, Country Where Highest Qualification was Attained and Sex (General Household Survey 2015) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 8, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_f4fc07360c3a4041b95261204d9769b9/view

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Created on

05 Jan 2024

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)