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Economy

Resident Households by Predominant Household Language and Highest Qualification Attained of Head of Household (General Household Survey 2015)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 09/03/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: General Household Survey 2015

Footnotes: Note: Data exclude one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons.Data pertain to heads who are not attending educational institutions as full-time students. The data include those who are upgrading their qualifications through part-time courses while working.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8283

Last updated 6 days ago (3 Sep 2026)

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ResidentHouseholdsbyPredominantHouseholdLanguageandHighestQualificationAttainedofHeadofHouseholdGeneralHouseholdSurvey2015.csv (13 rows, 1.1 KB)

Thousands
Text
Total
Numeric
No Qualification
Numeric
Primary
Text
Lower Secondary
Numeric
Secondary
Numeric
Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary)
Numeric
Polytechnic
Numeric
Professional Qualification And Other Diploma
Numeric
University
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)7.7%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total1058.1109.879.3101.3203.9108.178.973.9302.9
English387.67.28.619.572.937.733.536.8171.4
Mandarin362.741.835.643.671.936.730.72280.4
Chinese Dialects139.845.217.617.4249.34.4615.7
Hokkien64.324.39.68.510.4422.43.2
Teochew28.2113.73.74.61.70.60.62.3
Cantonese38.37.83.64.17.63.11.62.67.9
Other Chinese Dialects9.12.20.81.11.40.60.20.42.3
Malay106.712.313.316.428.520.16.745.2
Indian Languages50.93.14.14.36.443.44.721
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_28a4ed854520959969f7eb5329e236ae"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Households by Predominant Household Language and Highest Qualification Attained of Head of Household (General Household Survey 2015) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_28a4ed854520959969f7eb5329e236ae/view

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Created on

12 Jan 2024

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