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Employed HDB Resident Population by Occupation and Age

What this data shows

Published by Housing & Development Board. 112 records. Fields include SHS year, Age, Occupation, Percentage (4 columns in total). Covers 2013-01-01 to 2018-12-31. Last updated 2024-06-06.

Description

Housing & Development Board CSV of the employed HDB resident population by occupation and age from 2013 through 2018, drawn from its Sample Household Survey. Columns cover survey year, age, occupation, and percentage share. Employed persons are those aged 15 and over who worked or had a job to return to; SAF members including full-time National Servicemen are included. Housing and labour researchers study the occupational profile of working HDB residents.

Official description

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

Last updated
Coverage
2013-01-01 – 2018-12-31
Rows
112
Columns
4

Chart

Values are summed where multiple rows share the same category.

Data

SHS year Age Occupation Percentage
2013 15 - 24 Legislator, senior officials & managers 4.500000
2013 15 - 24 Professionals 10.600000
2013 15 - 24 Associate professionals & technicians 20.700000
2013 15 - 24 Clerical Workers 13.300000
2013 15 - 24 Service, shop and market sales workers 12.700000
2013 15 - 24 Production craftsmen & related workers and plant & machine operators & assembler... 2.400000
2013 15 - 24 Cleaners, labourers and related workers 2.500000
2013 15 - 24 Others 33.300000
2013 25 - 34 Legislator, senior officials & managers 13.000000
2013 25 - 34 Professionals 24.900000

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Columns

Column Type Categorical
SHS year Year (YYYY) No
Age Text No
Occupation Text No
Percentage Numeric (Percentage) No