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Economy

Resident Households by Predominant Household Language, Ethnic Group and Sex of Head of Household (General Household Survey 2005)

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 and households comprising only unrelated persons.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8748

Last updated 27 days ago (19 Aug 2026)

Updated every 10 years

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ResidentHouseholdsbyPredominantHouseholdLanguageEthnicGroupandSexofHeadofHouseholdGeneralHouseholdSurvey2005.csv (13 rows, 1.7 KB)

Number
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
(Total) Males
Numeric
(Total) Females
Numeric
(Chinese) Total
Text
(Chinese) Males
Text
(Chinese) Females
Text
(Malays) Total
Text
(Malays) Males
Text
(Malays) Females
Text
(Indians) Total
Text
(Indians) Males
Text
(Indians) Females
Text
(Others) Total
Text
(Others) Males
Text
(Others) Females
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)7.7%
(Null)23.1%
(Null)7.7%
(Null)15.4%
(Null)15.4%
(Null)69.2%
(Null)7.7%
(Null)15.4%
(Null)38.5%
(Null)7.7%
(Null)7.7%
(Null)23.1%
Total907479764839142640703797590601113196110145938211632476377657511062617159146652494
English2616292256073602220500017769527305143821168726953040326163424111844100631781
Mandarin31957027574943821319126275430436959178136767na287174113
Chinese Dialects17698913517041819176844135060417842626na534013664422
Hokkien8432865875184538426665825184421313na2727na221111
Teochew3520526519868635180264958686nanana1313na1111na
Cantonese4405933076109834400033041109591313na13na13332211
Other Chinese Dialects13398970036981339897003698nanananananananana
Malay10673991247154921576135422195516818991361776936321137319531672281
Indian Languages3824033206503413na132626na3797332973499922920722
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_be0ef29596282b9d228c427a10beaf70"
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 Households by Predominant Household Language, Ethnic Group and Sex of Head of Household (General Household Survey 2005) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 15, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_be0ef29596282b9d228c427a10beaf70/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)