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Resident Students Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Level of Education Attending and Sex (Census of Population 2000)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 28/09/2015

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2000

Footnotes: Note: Data exclude students who were unable to speak, and those in one-person households and households comprising unrelated persons. For more information, please refer to the publication on 'Singapore Census of Population 2000, Statistical Release 2: Education, Language and Religion' (https://www.singstat.gov.sg/find-data/explore-data-themes/population/education-language-spoken-and-literacy/related-information).

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/5954

Last updated 25 days ago (15 Aug 2026)

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ResidentStudentsAged5YearsandOverbyLanguageMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeLevelofEducationAttendingandSexCensusofPopulation2000.csv (13 rows, 2.4 KB)

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(Total) Total
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(Total) Males
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(Total) Females
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(Pre-Primary) Total
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(Pre-Primary) Males
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(Pre-Primary) Females
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(Primary) Total
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(Primary) Males
Numeric
(Primary) Females
Numeric
(Secondary) Total
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(Secondary) Males
Numeric
(Secondary) Females
Numeric
(Upper Secondary) Total
Numeric
(Upper Secondary) Males
Numeric
(Upper Secondary) Females
Numeric
(Polytechnic) Total
Numeric
(Polytechnic) Males
Numeric
(Polytechnic) Females
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(University) Total
Numeric
(University) Males
Numeric
(University) Females
Numeric
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Total70516636493534023172073373803469331427216266115161119198810237589613444862061623870493152623423081330311566817363
English2088031071811016222497413142118321011475279848349486222492623697134495928752210299563646631031147515560
Mandarin3113621594831518792935215292140601328716787264999864404609540345201239262108612636413720126441621372428971
Chinese Dialects37495214861600916167888278692484638471113967314409417221232049672039252796515530742081
Hokkien1652696286898690303387351219471565521332132001176396879532621922134020851274811
Teochew69273968295824511612914007396611917112978874540034614038145891217772445
Cantonese12396688355136173392783249185413963631214614861497671826180710147941594860735
Other Chinese Dialects1647100764064313353130622537824413416784832481757325916891
Malay12196763658583091319366986496598373114328694381142049317621520425792625484324042439776341435
Indian Languages240171238311634274913771372110875691539672093889332013976597381046521526528246282
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dataset_id = "d_0a80e1bd4cb7485d5179f23c784b14e1"
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response = requests.get(url)
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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Students Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Level of Education Attending and Sex (Census of Population 2000) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_0a80e1bd4cb7485d5179f23c784b14e1/view

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24 Oct 2024

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)