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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 (Malays) (Census of Population 2020)

Last updated: 05 Apr 2026, 22:01 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/17455

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ResidentStudentsAged5YearsandOverbyLanguageMostSecondMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeLevelofEducationAttendingandEthnicGroupMalaysCensusofPopulation2020.csv (8 rows, 762 B)

Number
Text
(Malays) Total
Numeric
(Malays) Pre-Primary
Text
(Malays) Primary
Numeric
(Malays) Secondary
Numeric
(Malays) Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary)
Numeric
(Malays) Polytechnic Diploma
Numeric
(Malays) Professional Qualification and Other Diploma
Text
(Malays) University
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)12.5%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)12.5%
(Null)12.5%
Total112128102863935829068128941222723965900
English1/65641691624996164366303689711232971
English Only3619795128383027230823108
English & Malay60294598623104151335813640510872766
Malay1/46394337014356125936577529612732929
Malay Only3821325935979596503124359
Malay & English42573304413421116135982479311492570
Other Languages2/93-6401334--

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
(Malays) TotalMalays_TotalNumericNumber-
(Malays) Pre-PrimaryMalays_Pre_PrimaryTextNumber-
(Malays) PrimaryMalays_PrimaryNumericNumber-
(Malays) SecondaryMalays_SecondaryNumericNumber-
(Malays) Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary)Malays_Post_Secondary_Non_TertiaryNumericNumber-
(Malays) Polytechnic DiplomaMalays_PolytechnicDiplomaNumericNumber-
(Malays) Professional Qualification and Other DiplomaMalays_ProfessionalQualificationandOtherDiplomaTextNumber-
(Malays) UniversityMalays_UniversityTextNumber-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_54104128292c4d0751abe046f26ddfb5"
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. (2024). Resident Students Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Level of Education Attending and Ethnic Group (Malays) (Census of Population 2020) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 27, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_54104128292c4d0751abe046f26ddfb5/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)