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Resident Households by Household Living Arrangement and Predominant Household Language (Census of Population 2020)

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Published by Singapore Department of Statistics. 20 records. Fields include Number, Total, English, Mandarin (14 columns in total). Last updated 2021-06-18.

Description

Census 2020 resident households by household living arrangement and predominant household language, including English, Mandarin, and Chinese dialect splits. Singapore Department of Statistics excludes one-person and unrelated-only households; predominant language follows the most frequently spoken language among members for sociolinguistic and housing research.

Official description

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS Data Last Updated: 18/06/2021 Update Frequency: 10 years Survey period: Census of Population 2020 Footnotes: Note: Data exclude one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons. Predominant household language refers to the language or dialect spoken by the majority of household members to other members (excluding domestic workers and unrelated persons), taking into account the reported language most frequently spoken and language second most frequently spoken (new in 2020) at home for each household member. Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/17520

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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 1122876.000000 450993.000000 414782.000000 102954.000000 50715.000000 19404 27117.000000 5719.000000 105459.000000 39479.000000 31168.000000
Married Couple-Based Households 883364.000000 376386.000000 330313.000000 56905.000000 28307.000000 10281 15889.000000 2428.000000 78852.000000 33079.000000 25536.000000
Household Reference Person Aged Below 35 Years 75939.000000 41622.000000 22786.000000 483.000000 134.000000 7 264.000000 78.000000 8887.000000 1692.000000 1384.000000
No Children in Household 33135.000000 19004.000000 10671.000000 309.000000 78.000000 - 209.000000 22.000000 2394.000000 539.000000 382.000000
With Child(ren) in Household 42804.000000 22618.000000 12115.000000 174.000000 56.000000 7 56.000000 55.000000 6493.000000 1153.000000 1002.000000
Household Reference Person Aged 35 - 49 Years 302896.000000 154732.000000 103159.000000 3867.000000 1195.000000 236 2204.000000 232.000000 21274.000000 15480.000000 11249.000000
No Children in Household  51265.000000 23334.000000 20214.000000 1768.000000 685.000000 108 944.000000 32.000000 3457.000000 1362.000000 1007.000000
With Youngest Child Below 12 Years  197190.000000 106673.000000 62572.000000 1534.000000 332.000000 77 999.000000 126.000000 13224.000000 11047.000000 7989.000000
With Youngest Child Aged 12 - 15 Years 34542.000000 16825.000000 12107.000000 207.000000 44.000000 26 117.000000 19.000000 2684.000000 2146.000000 1603.000000
With Youngest Child Aged 16 Years and Over 19899.000000 7900.000000 8267.000000 358.000000 135.000000 25 143.000000 55.000000 1909.000000 924.000000 650.000000

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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 Numeric No
Malay Numeric No
(Indian Languages) Total   Numeric No
(Indian Languages) Tamil Numeric No
(Indian Languages) Other Indian Languages Numeric No
Others Numeric No