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Resident Students Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Level of Education Attending and Sex (Census of Population 2010)

Last updated: 15 Aug 2025, 20:00 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 29/09/2015

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2010

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 'Singapore Census of Population 2010, Statistical Release 1: Demographic Characteristics, Education, Language and Religion' (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/5989

Data explorer

ResidentStudentsAged5YearsandOverbyLanguageMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeLevelofEducationAttendingandSexCensusofPopulation2010.csv (13 rows, 2.8 KB)

Number
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
(Total) Males
Numeric
(Total) Females
Numeric
(Pre-Primary) Total
Numeric
(Pre-Primary) Males
Numeric
(Pre-Primary) Females
Numeric
(Primary) Total
Numeric
(Primary) Males
Numeric
(Primary) Females
Numeric
(Secondary) Total
Numeric
(Secondary) Males
Numeric
(Secondary) Females
Numeric
(Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary)) Total
Numeric
(Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary)) Males
Numeric
(Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary)) Females
Numeric
(Polytechnic) Total
Numeric
(Polytechnic) Males
Numeric
(Polytechnic) Females
Numeric
(Professional Qualification And Other Diploma) Total
Numeric
(Professional Qualification And Other Diploma) Males
Text
(Professional Qualification And Other Diploma) Females
Numeric
(University) Total
Numeric
(University) Males
Numeric
(University) Females
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
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(Null)0.0%
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(Null)7.7%
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(Null)0.0%
Total7933334040983892356118531919292662815681460791354892315591195181120415568928145275447943041294381361459364088186693083073538573
English3610151830421779743170116701150001359457076265184994845125548228247301156713163302481624214007555123943157333561412219235
Mandarin27335613856413479216625864179858592144076418458307942745403341862395489075342411748716754579625833213290701348415586
Chinese Dialects119376610532741116224928781733114530441644140010395604791843102381950925325522131234979
Hokkien44682504196410937721040652388132773858938121616476639537119582113650383267
Teochew16379576805631253502031483702101601368551259153106845331382223159
Cantonese5070278722832248713712427285141191623568446217229724430294202119831040583457
Other Chinese Dialects7623624002261624515095156738376423594464828na281404595
Malay10864757063515847571395836133922120570186523662619299173279219544237771104155825459215910091150281012041606
Indian Languages3065915163154963940192820121401471666848730636503655174387786617648349304331472861459561898

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Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
(Total) TotalTotal_TotalNumericNumber-
(Total) MalesTotal_MalesNumericNumber-
(Total) FemalesTotal_FemalesNumericNumber-
(Pre-Primary) TotalPre_Primary_TotalNumericNumber-
(Pre-Primary) MalesPre_Primary_MalesNumericNumber-
(Pre-Primary) FemalesPre_Primary_FemalesNumericNumber-
(Primary) TotalPrimary_TotalNumericNumber-
(Primary) MalesPrimary_MalesNumericNumber-
(Primary) FemalesPrimary_FemalesNumericNumber-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_900998d546482a3b852a861a312810d5"
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 Frequently Spoken at Home, Level of Education Attending and Sex (Census of Population 2010) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 5, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_900998d546482a3b852a861a312810d5/view

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Created on

24 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)