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Resident Students Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Level of Education Attending and Sex (Census of Population 2020)

Updated 9 days ago

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: Note: Data exclude persons who were unable to speak, and those in one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/17453

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ResidentStudentsAged5YearsandOverbyLanguageMostSecondMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeLevelofEducationAttendingandSexCensusofPopulation2020.csv (28 rows, 5.5 KB)

Number
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
(Total) Males
Numeric
(Total) Females
Numeric
(Pre-Primary) Total
Numeric
(Pre-Primary) Males
Numeric
(Pre-Primary) Females
Text
(Primary) Total
Numeric
(Primary) Males
Numeric
(Primary) Females
Text
(Secondary) Total
Numeric
(Secondary) Males
Numeric
(Secondary) Females
Numeric
(Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary)) Total
Numeric
(Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary)) Males
Numeric
(Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary)) Females
Text
(Polytechnic Diploma) Total
Numeric
(Polytechnic Diploma) Males
Text
(Polytechnic Diploma) Females
Numeric
(Professional Qualification and Other Diploma) Total
Numeric
(Professional Qualification and Other Diploma) Males
Text
(Professional Qualification and Other Diploma) Females
Numeric
(University) Total
Numeric
(University) Males
Numeric
(University) Females
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)3.6%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)3.6%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)3.6%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)3.6%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)3.6%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total716331361527354804554022854326859244847125381119466174084884318565456528299492657972368376433472511500527562251016014630655295
English51504026007125496941007211961981118418694536896491238926250561386376561997517681487132539923313736633853981722213307439146
English Only66910375392937169833987299621647119709677160999116698346512722192960293800222913285887391017453554819
English & Mandarin3229801614891614912389712120117781174235962857795754713764037831222881160310685298461552214324345117711680506022320427398
English & Chinese Dialect55932737285519013654103850853011235575665041853208474963522591221371631734898
English & Malay72567362283633970513506354527519142801323818264892493406789389928907525350840171410588823401015242486
English & Tamil246891213212557155270285088094501430866263498312819478811065250712321274596209387265411091545
English & Other Indian Language1255054377113729389340465922032457322912751954792359433777315462160609922038351368
English & Other Language975145095242605357248309114451646307914941585684325359118252765516247116946313633
Mandarin1/1218886082161067881141884623358791840117477285621461613945908046744406152317752748021769411236221481024911900

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
(Total) TotalTotal_TotalNumericNumber-
(Total) MalesTotal_MalesNumericNumber-
(Total) FemalesTotal_FemalesNumericNumber-
(Pre-Primary) TotalPre_Primary_TotalNumericNumber-
(Pre-Primary) MalesPre_Primary_MalesNumericNumber-
(Pre-Primary) FemalesPre_Primary_FemalesTextNumber-
(Primary) TotalPrimary_TotalNumericNumber-
(Primary) MalesPrimary_MalesNumericNumber-
(Primary) FemalesPrimary_FemalesTextNumber-
(Secondary) TotalSecondary_TotalNumericNumber-
(Secondary) MalesSecondary_MalesNumericNumber-
(Secondary) FemalesSecondary_FemalesNumericNumber-
(Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary)) TotalPost_Secondary_Non_Tertiary_TotalNumericNumber-
(Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary)) MalesPost_Secondary_Non_Tertiary_MalesNumericNumber-
(Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary)) FemalesPost_Secondary_Non_Tertiary_FemalesTextNumber-
(Polytechnic Diploma) TotalPolytechnicDiploma_TotalNumericNumber-
(Polytechnic Diploma) MalesPolytechnicDiploma_MalesTextNumber-
(Polytechnic Diploma) FemalesPolytechnicDiploma_FemalesNumericNumber-
(Professional Qualification and Other Diploma) TotalProfessionalQualificationandOtherDiploma_TotalNumericNumber-
(Professional Qualification and Other Diploma) MalesProfessionalQualificationandOtherDiploma_MalesTextNumber-
(Professional Qualification and Other Diploma) FemalesProfessionalQualificationandOtherDiploma_FemalesNumericNumber-
(University) TotalUniversity_TotalNumericNumber-
(University) MalesUniversity_MalesNumericNumber-
(University) FemalesUniversity_FemalesNumericNumber-
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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Students Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Level of Education Attending and Sex (Census of Population 2020) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved January 23, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_c68fe4c0be031500875ce9e3074c5cef/view

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