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Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Highest Qualification Attained and Ethnic Group (Indians) (Census of Population 2020)

Last updated: 05 Oct 2025, 21:01 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 16/06/2021

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2020

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 were not attending educational institutions as full-time students and include those who were upgrading their qualifications through part-time courses.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/17451

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ResidentPopulationAged15YearsandOverbyLanguageMostSecondMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeHighestQualificationAttainedandEthnicGroupIndiansCensusofPopulation2020.csv (15 rows, 1.4 KB)

Number
Text
(Indians) Total
Numeric
(Indians) No Qualification
Numeric
(Indians) Primary
Numeric
(Indians) Lower Secondary
Numeric
(Indians) Secondary
Numeric
(Indians) Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary)
Numeric
(Indians) Polytechnic Diploma
Numeric
(Indians) Professional Qualification and Other Diploma
Numeric
(Indians) University
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%
Total2458101413410915164383545029922204001880099751
English1/1375322951338877572077318275128831214659358
English Only20021348292114830702387168716259465
English & Malay19639632695135538393702262919374850
English & Tamil626521585206344411084493356496639521492
English & Other Indian Language31137353249744244724461488189121520
Malay1/16980316319101703364333411358950911
Malay & English118098649901263303427841158887829
Indian Languages906117966561169301090082566116563539198
Tamil1/72017721452316243988073035243451026394

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
(Indians) TotalIndians_TotalNumericNumber-
(Indians) No QualificationIndians_NoQualificationNumericNumber-
(Indians) PrimaryIndians_PrimaryNumericNumber-
(Indians) Lower SecondaryIndians_LowerSecondaryNumericNumber-
(Indians) SecondaryIndians_SecondaryNumericNumber-
(Indians) Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary)Indians_Post_Secondary_Non_TertiaryNumericNumber-
(Indians) Polytechnic DiplomaIndians_PolytechnicDiplomaNumericNumber-
(Indians) Professional Qualification and Other DiplomaIndians_ProfessionalQualificationandOtherDiplomaNumericNumber-
(Indians) UniversityIndians_UniversityNumericNumber-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_408e827e8f805aa5408a99c08cb9f12f"
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 Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Highest Qualification Attained and Ethnic Group (Indians) (Census of Population 2020) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved October 12, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_408e827e8f805aa5408a99c08cb9f12f/view

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Created on

22 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)