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Economy

Resident Households by Household Living Arrangement and Predominant Household Language (Census of Population 2000)

Last updated: 23 Sep 2025, 20:00 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 04/04/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2000

Footnotes: Note: Data exclude one-person households and households comprising unrelated persons.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/9075

Data explorer

ResidentHouseholdsbyHouseholdLivingArrangementandPredominantHouseholdLanguageCensusofPopulation2000.csv (26 rows, 3.2 KB)

Number
Text
Total
Numeric
English
Numeric
Mandarin
Numeric
Chinese Dialects- Total
Numeric
Chinese Dialects- Hokkien
Numeric
Chinese Dialects- Teochew
Text
Chinese Dialects- Cantonese
Numeric
Chinese Dialects- Other Chinese Dialects
Text
Malay
Numeric
Indian Languages- Total
Numeric
Indian Languages- Tamil
Numeric
Indian Languages- Other Indian Languages
Text
Others
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)3.8%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)7.7%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)7.7%
(Null)11.5%
Total82888720157128121620432296050411715152115581105176347152841463021886
Couple Based Households679227176538248041138015652622746935335994987125279052239455111603
Young Couples10769132134430431098354021467334077515900530840221285324
No Children In Household408841367017465531124687111822310255417701278492113
With Youngest Child Below 12 Years6622718390252845615290274715024651324634822700782211
With Youngest Child Aged 12 Years And Over2734882331499na951515nana
Others307262122418na6na5413011na
Middle-Aged Couples3352419978113875535733185975857963016504623513954113922562783
No Children In Household320631015197337570391211552096407307413571087271177
With Youngest Child Below 12 Years23043073844948451672581972637499689434942963877981839436

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
TotalTotalNumericNumber-
EnglishEnglishNumericNumber-
MandarinMandarinNumericNumber-
Chinese Dialects- TotalChineseDialects_TotalNumericNumber-
Chinese Dialects- HokkienChineseDialects_HokkienNumericNumber-
Chinese Dialects- TeochewChineseDialects_TeochewTextNumber-
Chinese Dialects- CantoneseChineseDialects_CantoneseNumericNumber-
Chinese Dialects- Other Chinese DialectsChineseDialects_OtherChineseDialectsTextNumber-
MalayMalayNumericNumber-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_a9cf4e436a24b32d8ee3c8d0d8646b87"
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 Household Living Arrangement and Predominant Household Language (Census of Population 2000) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved October 10, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_a9cf4e436a24b32d8ee3c8d0d8646b87/view

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Created on

26 Oct 2024

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)