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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 2015)

Last updated: 03 Sep 2025, 23:00 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 11/03/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: General Household Survey 2015

Footnotes: Notes:Data exclude persons who were unable to speak, and those in one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons.Data pertain to residents 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. For more information, please refer to the publication on 'General Household Survey 2015' (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/8362

Data explorer

ResidentPopulationAged15YearsandOverbyHighestQualificationAttainedEthnicGroupandLanguageMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeGeneralHouseholdSurvey2015.csv (9 rows, 1.3 KB)

Thousands Text	(Chinese) English Numeric	(Chinese) Mandarin Numeric	(Chinese) Chinese Dialects Numeric	(Chinese) Others1/ Numeric	(Malays) English Numeric	(Malays) Malay Numeric	(Malays) Others1/ Numeric	(Indians) English Numeric	(Indians) Malay Numeric	(Indians) Tamil Numeric	(Indians) Other Indian Languages Numeric	(Indians) Others1/ Numeric	(Others) English Numeric	(Others) Malay Numeric	(Others) Others1/ 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%
Total	684.1	1007.9	422.4	7.9	57.6	272.6	0.3	93.5	14	91.2	31.4	0.7	52.7	3.1	26.8
No Qualification	6.7	99	168.4	0.8	1	38.4	0	1.5	2.2	9.5	1.3	0	0.7	0.4	1.2
Primary	8.7	82.8	52.3	0.3	1.9	28.1	0	3	1.7	7.8	0.7	0	0.6	0.2	0.9
Lower Secondary	22.5	100.2	43.5	0.5	2.7	31.9	0.1	5.8	1.6	8.1	1.2	0	1.5	0.4	1.1
Secondary	125.8	195.4	62.3	0.8	14.5	68.3	0	17.3	3	15.4	2.9	0	5	0.5	1.5
Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary)	68.4	102.6	24.2	0.7	11.9	53.4	0	10.6	2.3	8.4	1.2	0	4.8	0.3	1.3
Polytechnic	75.7	110.5	14.6	0.3	9.2	25.9	0	9.1	1.5	7.3	1.4	0.1	2.8	0.4	0.7
Professional Qualification And Other Diploma	64.9	77.6	15.9	0.3	5.8	12.6	0	9	0.6	5.8	2.2	0	5.7	0.1	1.3
University	311.4	240	41.2	4.3	10.5	14	0.2	37.2	0.9	28.9	20.4	0.6	31.6	0.8	18.8

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Thousands	Thousands	Text	Thousands	-
(Chinese) English	Chinese_English	Numeric	Thousands	-
(Chinese) Mandarin	Chinese_Mandarin	Numeric	Thousands	-
(Chinese) Chinese Dialects	Chinese_ChineseDialects	Numeric	Thousands	-
(Chinese) Others1/	Chinese_Others1	Numeric	Thousands	-
(Malays) English	Malays_English	Numeric	Thousands	-
(Malays) Malay	Malays_Malay	Numeric	Thousands	-
(Malays) Others1/	Malays_Others1	Numeric	Thousands	-
(Indians) English	Indians_English	Numeric	Thousands	-
(Indians) Malay	Indians_Malay	Numeric	Thousands	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_3bdcd0bce8b52713749d3ceeb607a763"
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. (2023). Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Highest Qualification Attained, Ethnic Group and Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home (General Household Survey 2015) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 16, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_3bdcd0bce8b52713749d3ceeb607a763/view

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01 Nov 2023

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