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Resident Households by Household Living Arrangement and Predominant Household Language (General Household Survey 2015)

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Published by Singapore Department of Statistics. 20 records. Fields include Thousands, Total, English, Mandarin (14 columns in total). Last updated 2016-03-23.

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General Household Survey 2015 table of Singapore resident households by living arrangement and predominant household language, in thousands. Languages include English, Mandarin, Chinese dialects, Malay, and Indian languages; one-person and unrelated-only households are excluded. Sociolinguists and family researchers study language use across household types. Adapted from SingStat TableBuilder CT/8610.

Official description

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS Data Last Updated: 23/03/2016 Update Frequency: 10 years Survey period: General Household Survey 2015 Footnotes: Note: Data exclude one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons. Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8610

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Values are summed where multiple rows share the same category.

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Thousands 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 1059.200000 388.200000 363.000000 139.900000 64.300000 28.2 38.300000 9.1 106.800000 50.900000 37.700000
Married Couple-Based Households 853.800000 326.500000 302.900000 87.900000 40.100000 17.3 25.200000 5.3 83.500000 44.200000 31.800000
Young Head Aged Below 35 Years 72.300000 28.600000 27.100000 2.100000 0.300000 0.3 1.000000 0.6 9.500000 4.000000 2.600000
No Children In Household 28.000000 12.200000 11.400000 1.100000 0.200000 0.2 0.500000 0.2 1.800000 1.300000 0.700000
With Child(ren) In Household 44.300000 16.400000 15.700000 1.000000 0.100000 0.1 0.500000 0.3 7.700000 2.600000 1.900000
Middle-Aged Head Aged 35 - 49 Years 315.700000 139.500000 108.400000 12.400000 4.700000 1.2 5.500000 0.9 26.000000 24.100000 16.300000
No Children In Household 46.700000 17.500000 19.100000 4.300000 1.700000 0.3 2.100000 0.1 2.600000 2.200000 1.500000
With Youngest Child Below 12 Years 200.200000 97.100000 62.700000 5.000000 1.400000 0.7 2.400000 0.4 14.800000 17.400000 11.800000
With Youngest Child Aged 12 - 15 Years 43.500000 18.100000 14.800000 1.500000 0.900000 na 0.400000 0.2 5.400000 3.000000 2.200000
With Youngest Child Aged 16 Years And Over 25.200000 6.900000 11.700000 1.600000 0.700000 0.2 0.500000 0.2 3.200000 1.500000 0.800000

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Column Type Categorical
Thousands 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 Numeric No
Others Numeric No