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Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Highest Qualification Attained and Ethnic Group (Malays) (Census of Population 2020)

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: Notes: Data exclude persons who were unable to speak, and those in one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons. Data pertain to residents who were not attending educational institutions as full-time students and include those who were upgrading their qualifications through part-time courses.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/17450

Last updated 4 days ago (5 Sep 2026)

Data explorer

ResidentPopulationAged15YearsandOverbyLanguageMostSecondMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeHighestQualificationAttainedandEthnicGroupMalaysCensusofPopulation2020.csv (8 rows, 889 B)

Number
Text
(Malays) Total
Numeric
(Malays) No Qualification
Numeric
(Malays) Primary
Numeric
(Malays) Lower Secondary
Numeric
(Malays) Secondary
Numeric
(Malays) Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary)
Numeric
(Malays) Polytechnic Diploma
Numeric
(Malays) Professional Qualification and Other Diploma
Numeric
(Malays) University
Numeric
(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%
Total3835363686726430377368911481200506252258138983
English1/1276572243351678442670228326238381124323945
English Only5696183226343103710089565161427
English & Malay1201842015322074542544927096226561055121743
Malay1/2546773453622838297136227752776267041124414590
Malay Only689412558710600883511628781824848461143
Malay & English184783860212113207685050344836241851038513390
Other Languages2/12028976179135988395449
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_a31de4100b6fb5fb42ffe8019a112128"
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 Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Highest Qualification Attained and Ethnic Group (Malays) (Census of Population 2020) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_a31de4100b6fb5fb42ffe8019a112128/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)