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Economy

Resident Households by Predominant Household Language and Occupation of Household Reference Person (Census of Population 2020)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 18/06/2021

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2020

Footnotes: Note: Data exclude one-person households, households comprising only unrelated persons and households with household reference persons who were not employed. Predominant household language refers to the language or dialect spoken by the majority of household members to other members (excluding domestic workers and unrelated persons), taking into account the reported language most frequently spoken and language second most frequently spoken (new in 2020) at home for each household member.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/17525

Last updated 3 days ago (6 Sep 2026)

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ResidentHouseholdsbyPredominantHouseholdLanguageandOccupationofHouseholdReferencePersonCensusofPopulation2020.csv (13 rows, 1.3 KB)

Number
Text
Total
Numeric
Legislators, Senior Officials & Managers
Numeric
Professionals
Numeric
Associate Professionals & Technicians
Numeric
Clerical Support Workers
Numeric
Service & Sales Workers
Numeric
Craftsmen & Related Trades Workers
Numeric
Plant & Machine Operators & Assemblers
Numeric
Cleaners, Labourers & Related Workers
Numeric
Others1/
Text
(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)15.4%
Total90030819793019474616226154470859983899998708576689527
English37414510861810666670160207482599271742175875395491
Mandarin33919367583618315834318270345332211448827246183073
Chinese Dialects61655793176237791552784923381917911300432
Hokkien3069928572509361225584521166057376914330
Teochew10732148812511183105115945891674183072
Cantonese16861315331772382143219929341520224130
Other Chinese Dialects3364433687613486385197248315-
Malay82741290455071847179681323553401672512195396
Indian Languages341628251939661671871343595120741883135
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_86816f005ff5c2d072e26cd704ccc69e"
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 Occupation of Household Reference Person (Census of Population 2020) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_86816f005ff5c2d072e26cd704ccc69e/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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