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Economy

Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Economic Status and Sex (General Household Survey 2015)

Last updated: 04 Jul 2025, 21:01 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 23/03/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: General Household Survey 2015

Footnotes: Note: Data exclude persons 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 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/8603

Data explorer

ResidentPopulationAged15YearsandOverbyLanguageMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeEconomicStatusandSexGeneralHouseholdSurvey2015.csv (13 rows, 2 KB)

Thousands
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
(Total) Males
Numeric
(Total) Females
Numeric
(Economically Active- Total) Total
Numeric
(Economically Active- Total) Males
Numeric
(Economically Active- Total) Females
Numeric
(Economically Active- Working) Total
Numeric
(Economically Active- Working) Males
Numeric
(Economically Active- Working) Females
Numeric
(Economically Active- Unemployed) Total
Numeric
(Economically Active- Unemployed) Males
Numeric
(Economically Active- Unemployed) Females
Numeric
(Economically Inactive) Total
Numeric
(Economically Inactive) Males
Numeric
(Economically Inactive) Females
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%
Total3092.51506.81585.72108.11153.7954.52030.51113.3917.277.640.337.3984.3353.1631.2
English1052.2529.2523.1743.1403.2340714.4387.7326.728.715.513.2309.1126183.1
Mandarin1121.1534.6586.5818.7427.3391.3793.2414.5378.725.512.912.6302.4107.2195.2
Chinese Dialects427.5202.4225.2227.7132.195.6219.1126.792.38.65.43.3199.970.3129.6
Hokkien204.7101.6103.2110.267.942.3106.46541.33.82.8194.533.760.8
Teochew86.239.746.643.124.718.441.423.617.81.71.10.643.21528.2
Cantonese109.348.560.860.83228.757.930.727.22.91.41.548.516.432.1
Other Chinese Dialects27.312.614.613.67.56.113.47.460.20.10.213.65.18.5
Malay331.5162.3169.2208.212484.2197.7119.178.510.64.95.7123.338.385
Indian Languages131.664.567.189.355.234.185.653.6323.71.62.142.39.333

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
ThousandsThousandsTextThousands-
(Total) TotalTotal_TotalNumericThousands-
(Total) MalesTotal_MalesNumericThousands-
(Total) FemalesTotal_FemalesNumericThousands-
(Economically Active- Total) TotalEconomicallyActive_Total_TotalNumericThousands-
(Economically Active- Total) MalesEconomicallyActive_Total_MalesNumericThousands-
(Economically Active- Total) FemalesEconomicallyActive_Total_FemalesNumericThousands-
(Economically Active- Working) TotalEconomicallyActive_Working_TotalNumericThousands-
(Economically Active- Working) MalesEconomicallyActive_Working_MalesNumericThousands-
(Economically Active- Working) FemalesEconomicallyActive_Working_FemalesNumericThousands-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_486badd997f96803fbd08b6a6c5dcd7a"
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. (2023). Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Economic Status and Sex (General Household Survey 2015) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 2, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_486badd997f96803fbd08b6a6c5dcd7a/view

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Created on

01 Nov 2023

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)