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Economy

Resident Households by Predominant Household Language and Age Group of Head of Household (General Household Survey 2005)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 28/03/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: General Household Survey 2005

Footnotes: Note: Data exclude one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8749

Last updated 27 days ago (19 Aug 2026)

Updated every 10 years

Data explorer

ResidentHouseholdsbyPredominantHouseholdLanguageandAgeGroupofHeadofHouseholdGeneralHouseholdSurvey2005.csv (13 rows, 1.5 KB)

Number
Text
Total
Numeric
Below 25 Years
Text
25 - 29 Years
Numeric
30 - 34 Years
Numeric
35 - 39 Years
Numeric
40 - 44 Years
Numeric
45 - 49 Years
Numeric
50 - 54 Years
Numeric
55 - 59 Years
Numeric
60 - 64 Years
Numeric
65 - 69 Years
Numeric
70 - 74 Years
Numeric
75 Years & Over
Numeric
(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%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total907479338630151850641194051451181433421271209799955260418222956729244
English261629773874728130419164805147059365722484911334649139553753
Mandarin31957012091262932821431835576454797504843495816556982446802665
Chinese Dialects17698918927668553112471378217485213032468421371203041630918997
Hokkien8432812612433702517967658824110791283210574888975077606
Teochew35205254521402161424383224410548684755458133744367
Cantonese44059388292617346434424434515859254865533738364114
Other Chinese Dialects13398na2428329891136100396010581178149715922911
Malay1067399844463952014795198061841014995103224494367729062368
Indian Languages3824016712145405737066615085336329301447146017041434
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_471e474d5f6528565eba11be18d09ab6"
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 Age Group of Head of Household (General Household Survey 2005) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 15, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_471e474d5f6528565eba11be18d09ab6/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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