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.