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Collection: Sample Household Survey: Employed HDB Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Above by Occupation

Dataset: Employed HDB Resident Population by Occupation and Age

Housing

Employed HDB Resident Population by Occupation and Age

HDB (Housing & Development Board)

Employed persons refer to persons aged 15 years old and above who, at the point of survey: (i) worked for one hour or more either for pay or profit; or (ii) have a job or business to return to but were temporarily absent because of illness, injury, breakdown of machinery at workplace, labour management dispute or other reasons. Members of the Singapore Armed Forces including full-time National Servicemen were included in the persons employed, unless otherwise specified

Data from Jan 2013 to Dec 2018

Last updated 6 Jun 2024

Data explorer

EmployedHDBResidentPopulationbyOccupationandAge.csv (112 rows, 5.9 KB)

SHS year Year (YYYY)	Age Text	Occupation Text	Percentage Numeric (Percentage)
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2013	15 - 24	Legislator, senior officials & managers	4.5
2013	15 - 24	Professionals	10.6
2013	15 - 24	Associate professionals & technicians	20.7
2013	15 - 24	Clerical Workers	13.3
2013	15 - 24	Service, shop and market sales workers	12.7
2013	15 - 24	Production craftsmen & related workers and plant & machine operators & assemblers	2.4
2013	15 - 24	Cleaners, labourers and related workers	2.5
2013	15 - 24	Others	33.3
2013	25 - 34	Legislator, senior officials & managers	13
2013	25 - 34	Professionals	24.9

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
SHS year	shs_year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Age	age	Text	-	-
Occupation	occupation	Text	-	Please note changes to Singapore Standard Occupational Classification (SSOC) across the series. Occupation captured was based on the prevailing SSOC at the point of survey, i.e., SSOC2010 and SSOC 2015 for SHS2013 and SHS2018 respectively. Excluding non-response cases
Percentage	percentage	Numeric (Percentage)	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_fcfc5a44d2e3d783b895f4b4016b84d9"
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.

Housing & Development Board. (2021). Employed HDB Resident Population by Occupation and Age (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_fcfc5a44d2e3d783b895f4b4016b84d9/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

25 Oct 2021

Licence

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

Agency

HDB (Housing & Development Board)