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Resident Students Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Level of Education Attending and Ethnic Group (Chinese) (Census of Population 2020)

Last updated: 05 Sep 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: Note: Data exclude persons who were unable to speak, and those in one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/17454

Data explorer

ResidentStudentsAged5YearsandOverbyLanguageMostSecondMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeLevelofEducationAttendingandEthnicGroupChineseCensusofPopulation2020.csv (15 rows, 1.3 KB)

Number
Text
(Chinese) Total
Numeric
(Chinese) Pre-Primary
Numeric
(Chinese) Primary
Numeric
(Chinese) Secondary
Numeric
(Chinese) Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary)
Numeric
(Chinese) Polytechnic Diploma
Numeric
(Chinese) Professional Qualification and Other Diploma
Numeric
(Chinese) 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%
Total495005371411665521151233511850832689583344
English1/36958128131129960857712576935052463260267
English Only4638045491424910752323845288728192
English & Mandarin31295422978113001728642166129161338149908
English & Chinese Dialect5519190103410924868472421627
English & Malay248720670655024727885415
Mandarin1/12156587613574428494906415213216122128
Mandarin Only18927139049094562161523675063578
Mandarin & English9702072052999522580699811696143117114
Mandarin & Chinese Dialect5445154777127644111432241430

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
(Chinese) TotalChinese_TotalNumericNumber-
(Chinese) Pre-PrimaryChinese_Pre_PrimaryNumericNumber-
(Chinese) PrimaryChinese_PrimaryNumericNumber-
(Chinese) SecondaryChinese_SecondaryNumericNumber-
(Chinese) Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary)Chinese_Post_Secondary_Non_TertiaryNumericNumber-
(Chinese) Polytechnic DiplomaChinese_PolytechnicDiplomaNumericNumber-
(Chinese) Professional Qualification and Other DiplomaChinese_ProfessionalQualificationandOtherDiplomaNumericNumber-
(Chinese) UniversityChinese_UniversityNumericNumber-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_453018de40b2f290e270fb62b4c87b9b"
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 Students Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Level of Education Attending and Ethnic Group (Chinese) (Census of Population 2020) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 5, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_453018de40b2f290e270fb62b4c87b9b/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)