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Data On The Household Income For Resident Households With Children In Past Five Years

Type: Parliamentary Questions

Topic(s): Children & Families

Published on 02 November 2021

Mr Leon Perera askedthe Minister for Social and Family Development (a) in each of the past five years, what is the 20th percentile household income for resident households with children; and (b) what are the mean and median numbers of children in the bottom 20th percentile category of households with children, including those without working members.

Answer

1 The Department of Statistics (DOS) has provided the following estimates based on the Comprehensive Labour Force Surveys 2016 - 2019 and the Census of Population 2020.

Table 1 Monthly Household Income from Work Among Resident Households With At Least 1 Child1

Percentile2

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

20th

$5,070

$5,303

$5,385

$5,403

$5,320

 

2 The mean and median numbers of children in the bottom 20th percentile category of households with children, including those without working members, are 1.7 and 1 respectively for the last 5 years.

 

1 Refers to resident persons aged below 18 years.
2 Based on ranking of resident households with at least 1 resident aged below 18 years and by monthly household income from work (including employer CPF contributions). This includes households without working members.