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Resident Households by Predominant Household Language and Occupation of Head of Household

Updated 1 day ago

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 21/04/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: General Household Survey 2015

Footnotes: Note: Data exclude one-person households, households comprising only unrelated persons and households with non-working heads.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/9139

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ResidentHouseholdsbyPredominantHouseholdLanguageandOccupationofHeadofHousehold.csv (13 rows, 1.2 KB)

Thousands
Text
Total
Numeric
Legislators, Senior Officials & Managers
Numeric
Professionals
Numeric
Associate Professionals & Technicians
Numeric
Clerical Support Workers
Text
Service & Sales Workers
Numeric
Craftsmen & Related Trades Workers
Numeric
Plant & Machine Operators & Assemblers
Text
Cleaners, Labourers & Related Workers
Numeric
Others1/
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)7.7%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)7.7%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)38.5%
Total854.9203.2154.8147.760.682.751.292.154.18.4
English326.5110.480.55921.620.68.215.85.44.8
Mandarin303.562.545.95220.131.325.243.120.72.7
Chinese Dialects8513.87.5117.310.77.312.914.10.3
Hokkien39.95.21.94.235.33.77.88.40.2
Teochew15.52.10.91.71.62.31.52.62.7na
Cantonese24.65.53.34.32.12.81.822.70.1
Other Chinese Dialects5.10.91.30.80.60.40.30.50.3na
Malay85.83.14.616.89.514.78.317.111.20.5
Indian Languages44.310.711.77.31.8523.12.6na

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
ThousandsThousandsTextThousands-
TotalTotalNumericThousands-
Legislators, Senior Officials & ManagersLegislators_SeniorOfficialsandManagersNumericThousands-
ProfessionalsProfessionalsNumericThousands-
Associate Professionals & TechniciansAssociateProfessionalsandTechniciansNumericThousands-
Clerical Support WorkersClericalSupportWorkersTextThousands-
Service & Sales WorkersServiceandSalesWorkersNumericThousands-
Craftsmen & Related Trades WorkersCraftsmenandRelatedTradesWorkersNumericThousands-
Plant & Machine Operators & AssemblersPlantandMachineOperatorsandAssemblersTextThousands-
Cleaners, Labourers & Related WorkersCleaners_LabourersandRelatedWorkersNumericThousands-
Others1/Others1TextThousands-

Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
datasetId = "d_e099718b538d00575af6a41b1b994acb"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + datasetId 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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