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Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Age Group, Ethnic Group and Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home (General Household Survey 2005)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 28/09/2015

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: General Household Survey 2005

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 'General Household Survey 2005, Statistical Release 1: Socio-Demographic and Economic Characteristics' (https://www.singstat.gov.sg/find-data/explore-data-themes/population/education-language-spoken-and-literacy/related-information).

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/5965

Last updated 25 days ago (15 Aug 2026)

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ResidentPopulationAged5YearsandOverbyAgeGroupEthnicGroupandLanguageMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeGeneralHouseholdSurvey2005.csv (16 rows, 2 KB)

Number
Text
(Chinese) English
Numeric
(Chinese) Mandarin
Numeric
(Chinese) Chinese Dialects
Numeric
(Chinese) Others*
Numeric
(Malays) English
Numeric
(Malays) Malay
Numeric
(Malays) Others*
Text
(Indians) English
Numeric
(Indians) Malay
Numeric
(Indians) Tamil
Numeric
(Indians) Other Indian Languages
Numeric
(Indians) Others*
Numeric
(Others) English
Numeric
(Others) Malay
Numeric
(Others) Others*
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)6.3%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total6878491130420571776733056320376294111998481268279809728199101741768771313969
5 - 98154887609304655482233647278119552214846826769348133911020
10 - 147895710184845024578089419864411093266479991821573591667834
15 - 1961091101927760936061373864674951031075939938442381629573
20 - 2439801951751659644245003005292682726515834851691767617637
25 - 294471310317632950852480222754170639819887523246214921016301091
30 - 3461628107063420887816249244612878652176211242561617245756592233
35 - 396920710536939637679566031440701026516841100143908661145582822
40 - 447106511382041922725547236376631042823181008929118947625022144
45 - 49662831039295067866833513307511085842205790915374436617211152
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_adea1f4987be5ffc4c7d8866981eef3a"
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 5 Years and Over by Age Group, Ethnic Group and Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home (General Household Survey 2005) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_adea1f4987be5ffc4c7d8866981eef3a/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)