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Resident Households by Household Living Arrangement and Predominant Household Language (Census of Population 2000)

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Published by Singapore Department of Statistics. 26 records. Fields include Number, Total, English, Mandarin (14 columns in total). Last updated 2016-04-04.

Description

Census of Population 2000 counts of Singapore resident households by household living arrangement and the predominant language spoken at home. Language categories cover English, Mandarin, Chinese dialects including Hokkien, Teochew and Cantonese, Malay, Indian languages including Tamil, and other languages. One-person households and households made up only of unrelated persons are excluded. Sociolinguists and demographers use it to examine home language use across different family structures in Singapore. Adapted from SingStat TableBuilder CT/9075.

Official description

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/9075

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26
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Values are summed where multiple rows share the same category.

Data

Number Total English Mandarin Chinese Dialects- Total Chinese Dialects- Hokkien Chinese Dialects- Teochew Chinese Dialects- Cantonese Chinese Dialects- Other Chinese Dialects Malay Indian Languages- Total Indian Languages- Tamil
Total 828887.000000 201571.000000 281216.000000 204322.000000 96050.000000 41171 51521.000000 15581 105176.000000 34715.000000 28414.000000
Couple Based Households 679227.000000 176538.000000 248041.000000 138015.000000 65262.000000 27469 35335.000000 9949 87125.000000 27905.000000 22394.000000
Young Couples 107691.000000 32134.000000 43043.000000 10983.000000 5402.000000 1467 3340.000000 775 15900.000000 5308.000000 4022.000000
No Children In Household 40884.000000 13670.000000 17465.000000 5311.000000 2468.000000 711 1822.000000 310 2554.000000 1770.000000 1278.000000
With Youngest Child Below 12 Years 66227.000000 18390.000000 25284.000000 5615.000000 2902.000000 747 1502.000000 465 13246.000000 3482.000000 2700.000000
With Youngest Child Aged 12 Years And Over 273.000000 48.000000 82.000000 33.000000 14.000000 9 9.000000 na 95.000000 15.000000 15.000000
Others 307.000000 26.000000 212.000000 24.000000 18.000000 na 6.000000 na 5.000000 41.000000 30.000000
Middle-Aged Couples 335241.000000 99781.000000 138755.000000 35733.000000 18597.000000 5857 9630.000000 1650 46235.000000 13954.000000 11392.000000
No Children In Household 32063.000000 10151.000000 9733.000000 7570.000000 3912.000000 1155 2096.000000 407 3074.000000 1357.000000 1087.000000
With Youngest Child Below 12 Years 230430.000000 73844.000000 94845.000000 16725.000000 8197.000000 2637 4996.000000 894 34942.000000 9638.000000 7798.000000

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Columns

Column Type Categorical
Number Text No
Total Numeric No
English Numeric No
Mandarin Numeric No
Chinese Dialects- Total Numeric No
Chinese Dialects- Hokkien Numeric No
Chinese Dialects- Teochew Text No
Chinese Dialects- Cantonese Numeric No
Chinese Dialects- Other Chinese Dialects Text No
Malay Numeric No
Indian Languages- Total Numeric No
Indian Languages- Tamil Numeric No
Indian Languages- Other Indian Languages Text No
Others Text No