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Stall 01 · Hawker Heritage

The Hawker Library

The open reference on Singapore's hawker trade: its history, its prices, its incomes and its sources.

The Library never argues. It states each fact with its source and, where it matters, how far it can be trusted. Use it, cite it, correct it.

The volumes

Tools and references

  • What hawkers earnGraded ranges of take-home, from the bottom tenth to the top 1%, and the evidence behind them
  • Follow the PlateThe simulator: where a hawker meal's dollar goes, stall by stall
  • Follow the GiftWho pays for the Plan, as a flow you can change
  • A Day at the LighthouseOne weekday at a pilot centre: what helps a hawker today, and what the Plan adds
  • Your TableFour pages for diners
  • FiguresEvery headline number, with its source and kind
  • SourcesEvery reference, once, with its date and web address
  • GlossaryTerms in plain English, the evidence grades among them
  • DownloadsEvery PDF, the models and the data, free to reuse with credit
  • Every changeThe Library's own version and its Version and Change Control Log
  • Cite and reuseThe licence, how to cite it, and how to correct it

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This is a working paper for public discussion. Every number in it is an invitation to improve it. Corrections and better data are welcome.