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Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Highest Qualification Attained, Ethnic Group and Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home (General Household Survey 2005)

Last updated: 15 Aug 2025, 20:00 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 28/09/2015

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: General Household Survey 2005

Footnotes: Note: Data exclude those who were unable to speak, and those in one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons. For more information, please refer to the publication on 'General Household Survey 2005, Statistical Release 1: Socio-Demographic and Economic Characteristics' (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/5963

Data explorer

ResidentPopulationAged15YearsandOverbyHighestQualificationAttainedEthnicGroupandLanguageMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeGeneralHouseholdSurvey2005.csv (5 rows, 913 B)

Number
Text
(Chinese) English
Numeric
(Chinese) Mandarin
Numeric
(Chinese) Chinese Dialects
Numeric
(Chinese) Others*
Numeric
(Malays) English
Numeric
(Malays) Malay
Numeric
(Malays) Others*
Numeric
(Indians) English
Numeric
(Indians) Malay
Numeric
(Indians) Tamil
Numeric
(Indians) Other Indian Languages
Numeric
(Indians) Others*
Numeric
(Others) English
Numeric
(Others) Malay
Numeric
(Others) 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%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total4544678224925531455845334562635099416496419252753732279179730576606411386
Below Secondary3739729835736666116704305126351340101629782312493817267388325662959
Secondary1094791831627604579911667804551651878752541466325186461891715881
Post Secondary**1512942169207091610151287551505218196183705131264050168892715071904
University15629612405339522236246085198218163985121633512405298115782765642

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
(Chinese) EnglishChinese_EnglishNumericNumber-
(Chinese) MandarinChinese_MandarinNumericNumber-
(Chinese) Chinese DialectsChinese_ChineseDialectsNumericNumber-
(Chinese) Others*Chinese_OthersNumericNumber-
(Malays) EnglishMalays_EnglishNumericNumber-
(Malays) MalayMalays_MalayNumericNumber-
(Malays) Others*Malays_OthersNumericNumber-
(Indians) EnglishIndians_EnglishNumericNumber-
(Indians) MalayIndians_MalayNumericNumber-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_36a92f5abe7b30daf2fbbe6e1971ff68"
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 15 Years and Over by Highest Qualification Attained, Ethnic Group and Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home (General Household Survey 2005) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 5, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_36a92f5abe7b30daf2fbbe6e1971ff68/view

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Created on

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)