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Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Ethnic Group and Sex (Census of Population 2000)

Updated 7 months ago

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 persons 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' (www.singstat.gov.sg/find-data/search-by-theme/population/education-language-spoken-and-literacy/publications-and-methodology).

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/5959

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ResidentPopulationAged5YearsandOverbyLanguageMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeEthnicGroupandSexCensusofPopulation2000.csv (13 rows, 1.8 KB)

Number
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
(Total) Males
Numeric
(Total) Females
Numeric
(Chinese) Total
Numeric
(Chinese) Males
Numeric
(Chinese) Females
Numeric
(Malays) Total
Numeric
(Malays) Males
Numeric
(Malays) Females
Numeric
(Indians) Total
Numeric
(Indians) Males
Numeric
(Indians) Females
Numeric
(Others) Total
Numeric
(Others) Males
Text
(Others) Females
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%
(Null)7.7%
(Null)0.0%
Total288755214334691454083223606111078501128211405602202369203233211015107026103989348751622518650
English665087334047331040533948268003265945321731511217060750793920235878238871173012157
Mandarin101053949218051835910084894916145168753031071962281428615193171202
Chinese Dialects68727234480734246568576034437334138721990129193134591100210890
Hokkien329583172026157557328768171848156921136597781621959858541
Teochew141569696457192414133769587717491651138291017724153
Cantonese16370377764859381632797757685702532132583919313128185
Other Chinese Dialects524182537127047523762536127015145101651111na11
Malay406549203765202785527025102760371401186269185132244341223712197544527482696
Indian Languages1108775520755670613030473274199110142547925535020111290

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
(Total) TotalTotal_TotalNumericNumber-
(Total) MalesTotal_MalesNumericNumber-
(Total) FemalesTotal_FemalesNumericNumber-
(Chinese) TotalChinese_TotalNumericNumber-
(Chinese) MalesChinese_MalesNumericNumber-
(Chinese) FemalesChinese_FemalesNumericNumber-
(Malays) TotalMalays_TotalNumericNumber-
(Malays) MalesMalays_MalesNumericNumber-
(Malays) FemalesMalays_FemalesNumericNumber-
(Indians) TotalIndians_TotalNumericNumber-
(Indians) MalesIndians_MalesNumericNumber-
(Indians) FemalesIndians_FemalesNumericNumber-
(Others) TotalOthers_TotalNumericNumber-
(Others) MalesOthers_MalesTextNumber-
(Others) FemalesOthers_FemalesNumericNumber-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_24d9bff05f0fe3328e1e21de44463c5d"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Ethnic Group and Sex (Census of Population 2000) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved May 19, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_24d9bff05f0fe3328e1e21de44463c5d/view

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24 Oct 2024

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

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)