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Resident Students Aged 5 Years and Over by Level of Education Attending, 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 those 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/5962

Last updated 25 days ago (15 Aug 2026)

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ResidentStudentsAged5YearsandOverbyLevelofEducationAttendingEthnicGroupandLanguageMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeGeneralHouseholdSurvey2005.csv (7 rows, 1.1 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*
Text
(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)14.3%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)14.3%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total231607306086185091459227481121781793333274972255053472201110316492492
Pre-Primary2213922252867147227391743031555012467695311393116289
Primary9807111537443026451041948581601462128881001529629354156091148
Secondary63200943925339364659139948509746300569911086572757526678
Upper Secondary1817822314180410012816453262362501126837713582167127
Polytechnic1428730546313410115396696131930488117512826544167110
University157332120730641016461325na151811663299na41164139
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dataset_id = "d_d258e589146eb6d9243a25de02d40b83"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Students Aged 5 Years and Over by Level of Education Attending, Ethnic Group and Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home (General Household Survey 2005) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_d258e589146eb6d9243a25de02d40b83/view

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