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Resident Households by Predominant Household Language and Occupation of Head of Household (General Household Survey 2005)

Last updated: 24 Oct 2024, 19:57 SGT

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, households comprising only unrelated persons and those with non-working heads.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8745

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ResidentHouseholdsbyPredominantHouseholdLanguageandOccupationofHeadofHouseholdGeneralHouseholdSurvey2005.csv (13 rows, 1.5 KB)

Number
Text
Total
Numeric
Senior Officials & Managers
Numeric
Professionals
Numeric
Associate Professionals & Technicians
Numeric
Clerical Workers
Numeric
Service & Sales Workers
Numeric
Agricultural & Fishery Workers
Text
Production Craftsmen & Related Workers
Numeric
Plant & Machine Operators & Assemblers
Numeric
Cleaners, Labourers & Related Workers
Text
Workers Not Classifiable By Occupation
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)30.8%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)7.7%
(Null)7.7%
Total711331134349813271125525608893938852744581078503968910228
English222628688183892947388170121869776104471348924335340
Mandarin26847645597248403818717690365885593754151169128693435
Chinese Dialects9847312399581711566863016916126119791904211416581
Hokkien4754149881583415337168524886034112616890303
Teochew18823244576422931775393038189836811872126
Cantonese2562341532762414224293355na320532562221101
Other Chinese Dialects64868147079787111106na84384443351
Malay863722124202510291104131752478121742073510604404
Indian Languages314404321803943212262410413222533192367468

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
TotalTotalNumericNumber-
Senior Officials & ManagersSeniorOfficialsandManagersNumericNumber-
ProfessionalsProfessionalsNumericNumber-
Associate Professionals & TechniciansAssociateProfessionalsandTechniciansNumericNumber-
Clerical WorkersClericalWorkersNumericNumber-
Service & Sales WorkersServiceandSalesWorkersNumericNumber-
Agricultural & Fishery WorkersAgriculturalandFisheryWorkersTextNumber-
Production Craftsmen & Related WorkersProductionCraftsmenandRelatedWorkersNumericNumber-
Plant & Machine Operators & AssemblersPlantandMachineOperatorsandAssemblersNumericNumber-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_9fa2ce0a4159ab0d1f60c44ce81f624a"
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 Households by Predominant Household Language and Occupation of Head of Household (General Household Survey 2005) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 10, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_9fa2ce0a4159ab0d1f60c44ce81f624a/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)