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Economy

Resident Households by Predominant Household Language and Highest Qualification Attained of Household Reference Person (Census of Population 2020)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 18/06/2021

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2020

Footnotes: Note: Data exclude one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons. Data pertain to households with reference persons who were not attending educational institutions as full-time students and include those who were upgrading their qualifications through part-time courses. Predominant household language refers to the language or dialect spoken by the majority of household members to other members (excluding domestic workers and unrelated persons), taking into account the reported language most frequently spoken and language second most frequently spoken (new in 2020) at home for each household member.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/17524

Last updated 3 days ago (6 Sep 2026)

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ResidentHouseholdsbyPredominantHouseholdLanguageandHighestQualificationAttainedofHouseholdReferencePersonCensusofPopulation2020.csv (13 rows, 1.2 KB)

Number
Text
Total
Numeric
No Qualification
Numeric
Primary
Text
Lower Secondary
Numeric
Secondary
Numeric
Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary)
Numeric
Polytechnic Diploma
Numeric
Professional Qualification and Other Diploma
Numeric
University
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)7.7%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total1120909872866291610431919582612124210000477218372097
English449946532375011969971679429324737537638217800
Mandarin41410042864326755236172735419713595525986109552
Chinese Dialects1029142689010920148001785293454888480313414
Hokkien50715160046183792282914294224216324148
Teochew193885679204626403405180510606182134
Cantonese2710341982166352650042528135922066118
Other Chinese Dialects5708101052671211527182273481015
Malay10531999129926141012879523279842250365848
Indian Languages39437223718953159452934542931323517998
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_cf1309a61579aa696d6ad0220c8a8b47"
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 and Highest Qualification Attained of Household Reference Person (Census of Population 2020) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_cf1309a61579aa696d6ad0220c8a8b47/view

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Created on

22 Oct 2024

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