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Resident Households by Monthly Household Income and Household Size (Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18)

Updated 4 months ago

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 31/07/2019

Update Frequency: 5 years

Survey period: Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/16502

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ResidentHouseholdsbyMonthlyHouseholdIncomeandHouseholdSizeHouseholdExpenditureSurvey201718.csv (15 rows, 1.2 KB)

Per Cent Text	Total Numeric	(Household Size (Persons)) 1 Numeric	(Household Size (Persons)) 2 Numeric	(Household Size (Persons)) 3 Numeric	(Household Size (Persons)) 4 Numeric	(Household Size (Persons)) 5 Numeric	(Household Size (Persons)) 6 or More Numeric	Average Household Size (Persons) Text
(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)13.3%
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	3.2
Below 1,000	6	22.5	7.8	3	1	0.7	0.3	1.7
1,000 - 1,999	6.1	14.3	10.7	4.7	1.7	0.9	1.2	2.1
2,000 - 2,999	6.3	12.3	11.1	5	2.9	1.4	1.5	2.3
3,000 - 3,999	6.4	7.5	9.8	7.6	4	3.4	3	2.7
4,000 - 4,999	6.3	7.3	8.2	7.1	5.4	4.1	2.6	2.8
5,000 - 5,999	5.8	5.8	7.3	6.4	5.2	3.8	4.2	3
6,000 - 7,999	11.3	10.3	9.7	14.7	12	10.8	7.2	3.2
8,000 - 9,999	9.5	6.4	7.5	11.7	10.7	11.3	9.1	3.4
10,000 - 11,999	8	4.3	6.4	8.3	11.2	8.6	9	3.5

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Per Cent	PerCent	Text	Per Cent	-
Total	Total	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Household Size (Persons)) 1	HouseholdSize_Persons_1	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Household Size (Persons)) 2	HouseholdSize_Persons_2	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Household Size (Persons)) 3	HouseholdSize_Persons_3	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Household Size (Persons)) 4	HouseholdSize_Persons_4	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Household Size (Persons)) 5	HouseholdSize_Persons_5	Numeric	Per Cent	-
(Household Size (Persons)) 6 or More	HouseholdSize_Persons_6orMore	Numeric	Per Cent	-
Average Household Size (Persons)	AverageHouseholdSize_Persons	Text	Per Cent	-

Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_db9775ba34e16e1d66400cba94f8a574"
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. (2023). Resident Households by Monthly Household Income and Household Size (Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved March 14, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_db9775ba34e16e1d66400cba94f8a574/view

Resident Households by Monthly Household Income and Household Size (Household Expenditure Survey 2017/18)

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