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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 (Indians) (Census of Population 2020)

Last updated: 05 Oct 2025, 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/17456

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ResidentStudentsAged5YearsandOverbyLanguageMostSecondMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeLevelofEducationAttendingandEthnicGroupIndiansCensusofPopulation2020.csv (15 rows, 1.2 KB)

Number
Text
(Indians) Total
Numeric
(Indians) Pre-Primary
Numeric
(Indians) Primary
Numeric
(Indians) Secondary
Numeric
(Indians) Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary)
Text
(Indians) Polytechnic Diploma
Text
(Indians) Professional Qualification and Other Diploma
Text
(Indians) University
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)6.7%
(Null)6.7%
(Null)6.7%
(Null)0.0%
Total81509586929242218136602676016479576
English1/56330410920755145354165487311586736
English Only95941028351021737497862011146
English & Malay712458326991923561587178594
English & Tamil24491152987356577192324985832648
English & Other Indian Language12165717452831757267511602107
Malay1/269217464676247827871283
Malay & English258517464070945226671272
Indian Languages22227156076906452195916104192537
Tamil1/17618127462804921155513013881899

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
(Indians) TotalIndians_TotalNumericNumber-
(Indians) Pre-PrimaryIndians_Pre_PrimaryNumericNumber-
(Indians) PrimaryIndians_PrimaryNumericNumber-
(Indians) SecondaryIndians_SecondaryNumericNumber-
(Indians) Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary)Indians_Post_Secondary_Non_TertiaryTextNumber-
(Indians) Polytechnic DiplomaIndians_PolytechnicDiplomaTextNumber-
(Indians) Professional Qualification and Other DiplomaIndians_ProfessionalQualificationandOtherDiplomaTextNumber-
(Indians) UniversityIndians_UniversityNumericNumber-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_8bf813fa292a229e5390aab94829a75f"
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 Students Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Level of Education Attending and Ethnic Group (Indians) (Census of Population 2020) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved October 12, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_8bf813fa292a229e5390aab94829a75f/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)