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Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Highest Qualification Attained and Ethnic Group (Chinese) (Census of Population 2020)

Last updated: 06 Jul 2025, 19:00 SGT

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: Notes: Data exclude persons who were unable to speak, and those in one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons. Data pertain to residents who were not attending educational institutions as full-time students and include those who were upgrading their qualifications through part-time courses.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/17449

Data explorer

ResidentPopulationAged15YearsandOverbyLanguageMostSecondMostFrequentlySpokenatHomeHighestQualificationAttainedandEthnicGroupChineseCensusofPopulation2020.csv (26 rows, 2.4 KB)

Number
Text
(Chinese) Total
Numeric
(Chinese) No Qualification
Numeric
(Chinese) Primary
Numeric
(Chinese) Lower Secondary
Numeric
(Chinese) Secondary
Numeric
(Chinese) Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary)
Numeric
(Chinese) Polytechnic Diploma
Numeric
(Chinese) Professional Qualification and Other Diploma
Numeric
(Chinese) University
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total2159462236137118481177028329665200307209552149902738390
English1/893851865710827317961282078280810868571173451698
English Only114220134613942830151221055011036745564487
English & Mandarin640304408957211864778480593528677350986336254
English & Chinese Dialect118729265832379272317811153191171131039822
English & Malay140125314378872374109713349526400
Mandarin1/94702510395771808106710157854959658953567346253851
Mandarin Only2189243226822142303173624023233146581394546121
Mandarin & English429369669886972302064258443786188640136180296
Mandarin & Chinese Dialect2954126431840648528485674827967129401311526827

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
NumberNumberTextNumber-
(Chinese) TotalChinese_TotalNumericNumber-
(Chinese) No QualificationChinese_NoQualificationNumericNumber-
(Chinese) PrimaryChinese_PrimaryNumericNumber-
(Chinese) Lower SecondaryChinese_LowerSecondaryNumericNumber-
(Chinese) SecondaryChinese_SecondaryNumericNumber-
(Chinese) Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary)Chinese_Post_Secondary_Non_TertiaryNumericNumber-
(Chinese) Polytechnic DiplomaChinese_PolytechnicDiplomaNumericNumber-
(Chinese) Professional Qualification and Other DiplomaChinese_ProfessionalQualificationandOtherDiplomaNumericNumber-
(Chinese) UniversityChinese_UniversityNumericNumber-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_ed6d4934837b4eab645814947f2ed009"
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 Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Highest Qualification Attained and Ethnic Group (Chinese) (Census of Population 2020) (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 3, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_ed6d4934837b4eab645814947f2ed009/view

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Created on

22 Oct 2024

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)