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Economy

Resident Households by Predominant Household Language and Age Group of Head of Household (Census of Population 2000)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 04/04/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2000

Footnotes: Note: Data exclude one-person households and households comprising unrelated persons.

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/9079

Last updated 17 days ago (23 Aug 2026)

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ResidentHouseholdsbyPredominantHouseholdLanguageandAgeGroupofHeadofHouseholdCensusofPopulation2000.csv (13 rows, 1.5 KB)

Number
Text
Total
Numeric
Below 25
Numeric
25-29
Numeric
30-34
Numeric
35-39
Numeric
40-44
Numeric
45-49
Numeric
50-54
Numeric
55-59
Numeric
60-64
Numeric
65-69
Numeric
70-74
Numeric
75 & Over
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%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total828887337434725886921281611396291268591049496291951925386192525823776
English20157171488642562136387413383327225656115987666478430412630
Mandarin28121611721356633014486955376552263378711877111718581726841880
Chinese Dialects204322526553612235168881926821484260682414225018218911525716009
Hokkien96050293278658828361976110836129481180310990992565655901
Teochew41171667261954276434903910546852945560468435373717
Cantonese5152113816053399452647995663657356536558529933163992
Other Chinese Dialects15581294201000123712171076107913921911198318392398
Malay1051767895404128401968119276152241175259645332412626772111
Indian Languages3471514812764683616957514317331723242100196415591106
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_f89abcab3cc652c900dfd19c2b483a2a"
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 Age Group of Head of Household (Census of Population 2000) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_f89abcab3cc652c900dfd19c2b483a2a/view

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Created on

26 Oct 2024

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

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)