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Economy

Resident Households by Household Living Arrangement and Predominant Household Language (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/8746

Last updated 2 months ago (19 Jun 2026)

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ResidentHouseholdsbyHouseholdLivingArrangementandPredominantHouseholdLanguageGeneralHouseholdSurvey2005.csv (26 rows, 3.2 KB)

Number
Text
Total
Numeric
English
Text
Mandarin
Numeric
Chinese Dialects- Total
Text
Chinese Dialects- Hokkien
Text
Chinese Dialects- Teochew
Text
Chinese Dialects- Cantonese
Text
Chinese Dialects- Other Chinese Dialects
Text
Malay
Text
Indian Languages- Total
Numeric
Indian Languages- Tamil
Numeric
Indian Languages- Other Indian Languages
Text
Others
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)3.8%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)3.8%
(Null)7.7%
(Null)11.5%
(Null)3.8%
(Null)7.7%
(Null)3.8%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)11.5%
(Null)11.5%
Total90747926162931957017698984328352054405913398106739382402931289284311
Couple-Based Households739879226839274810115240555852255629308779187026321372406080773825
Young Couples96824333463976852272171699184850911586612739022224771
No Children In Household420091473819132284611424231080200267723601543817256
With Youngest Child Below 12 Years543541856720378233610292757402938819373823301408515
With Youngest Child Aged 12 Years And Over27640133nanananana901313nana
Others184na12545nana2916na1515nana
Middle-Aged Couples343323121234135525229231163834486653118444275170801273743432285
No Children In Household391491351914236646834048461964253301615201157363389
With Youngest Child Below 12 Years225634857848493097074536153130815593143512194884733471584
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_48a60c1944f4f2517af9ef52279cf135"
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 Household Living Arrangement and Predominant Household Language (General Household Survey 2005) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_48a60c1944f4f2517af9ef52279cf135/view

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Created on

24 Oct 2024

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