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Economy

Resident Households by Household Structure and Predominant Household Language (General Household Survey 2005)

Last updated: 20 Jun 2025, 19:01 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 28/03/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: General Household Survey 2005

Footnotes: Note: Data exclude one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8750

Data explorer

ResidentHouseholdsbyHouseholdStructureandPredominantHouseholdLanguageGeneralHouseholdSurvey2005.csv (8 rows, 1.2 KB)

Number
Text
Total
Numeric
English
Numeric
Mandarin
Numeric
Chinese Dialects- Total
Numeric
Chinese Dialects- Hokkien
Numeric
Chinese Dialects- Teochew
Numeric
Chinese Dialects- Cantonese
Numeric
Chinese Dialects- Other Chinese Dialects
Numeric
Malay
Numeric
Indian Languages- Total
Numeric
Indian Languages- Tamil
Numeric
Indian Languages- Other Indian Languages
Numeric
Others
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total90747926162931957017698984328352054405913398106739382402931289284311
No Family Nucleus3232165027474136666607249534091155299214411267175247
One Family Nucleus8197302421582934171511317184630177379241118394971342392595182883814
One Generation120906356253934330814142895844843822439047523538561379841
Two Generations630586186114229636109906524812224727106807376336259531959163632639
Three Or More Generations68238204182443810410507620872381867958830502505545333
Two Family Nuclei536701250218117118035631245626691047860724231983440219
Three Or More Family Nuclei17584685633892437657131681371102732

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
TotalTotalNumericNumber-
EnglishEnglishNumericNumber-
MandarinMandarinNumericNumber-
Chinese Dialects- TotalChineseDialects_TotalNumericNumber-
Chinese Dialects- HokkienChineseDialects_HokkienNumericNumber-
Chinese Dialects- TeochewChineseDialects_TeochewNumericNumber-
Chinese Dialects- CantoneseChineseDialects_CantoneseNumericNumber-
Chinese Dialects- Other Chinese DialectsChineseDialects_OtherChineseDialectsNumericNumber-
MalayMalayNumericNumber-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_1dadd98a5b5da3daaaf1849e89ddd88a"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Households by Household Structure and Predominant Household Language (General Household Survey 2005) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 5, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_1dadd98a5b5da3daaaf1849e89ddd88a/view

About this dataset

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Created on

24 Oct 2024

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)