Resident Households by Household Structure and Predominant Household Language (Census of Population 2020)
Description
Census of Population 2020 table on Singapore resident households by household structure and predominant household language, published by the Singapore Department of Statistics. The 14 columns cover English, Mandarin, Chinese dialects with a breakdown into Hokkien, Teochew, Cantonese and others, Malay, Indian languages including Tamil, and other languages. Predominant language reflects what the majority of household members speak to one another, and one-person and unrelated-person households are excluded. Sociolinguists and language-policy researchers use it to link family structure with home language. Adapted from SingStat TableBuilder CT/17519.
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/17519
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- Rows
- 10
- Columns
- 14
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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 | (Indian Languages) Other Indian Languages | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 1122876.000000 | 450993.000000 | 414782.000000 | 102954.000000 | 50715.000000 | 19404.000000 | 27117.000000 | 5719 | 105459.000000 | 39479.000000 | 31168.000000 | 8310.000000 | 9210.000000 |
| No Family Nucleus | 51743.000000 | 14427.000000 | 16772.000000 | 13840.000000 | 6948.000000 | 2517.000000 | 3344.000000 | 1032 | 4695.000000 | 1578.000000 | 1428.000000 | 150.000000 | 431.000000 |
| One Family Nucleus | 995669.000000 | 416088.000000 | 360145.000000 | 85731.000000 | 42012.000000 | 16284.000000 | 22962.000000 | 4472 | 89946.000000 | 35392.000000 | 27728.000000 | 7665.000000 | 8367.000000 |
| One Generation | 209094.000000 | 79482.000000 | 70812.000000 | 34613.000000 | 17764.000000 | 6449.000000 | 9158.000000 | 1242 | 16061.000000 | 5828.000000 | 4514.000000 | 1314.000000 | 2298.000000 |
| Two Generations | 710701.000000 | 314162.000000 | 253113.000000 | 47805.000000 | 22671.000000 | 9239.000000 | 12881.000000 | 3014 | 64039.000000 | 25905.000000 | 20348.000000 | 5558.000000 | 5677.000000 |
| Three or More Generations | 75874.000000 | 22444.000000 | 36220.000000 | 3313.000000 | 1577.000000 | 597.000000 | 923.000000 | 216 | 9847.000000 | 3659.000000 | 2866.000000 | 793.000000 | 392.000000 |
| Two Family Nuclei | 72461.000000 | 19713.000000 | 36295.000000 | 3344.000000 | 1735.000000 | 596.000000 | 798.000000 | 215 | 10364.000000 | 2354.000000 | 1868.000000 | 485.000000 | 391.000000 |
| One or Two Generations | 16829.000000 | 4538.000000 | 7637.000000 | 1055.000000 | 519.000000 | 241.000000 | 233.000000 | 63 | 2882.000000 | 651.000000 | 542.000000 | 109.000000 | 67.000000 |
| Three or More Generations | 55631.000000 | 15175.000000 | 28658.000000 | 2289.000000 | 1216.000000 | 355.000000 | 565.000000 | 153 | 7482.000000 | 1703.000000 | 1326.000000 | 376.000000 | 324.000000 |
| Three or More Family Nuclei | 3003.000000 | 765.000000 | 1570.000000 | 39.000000 | 20.000000 | 7.000000 | 12.000000 | - | 453.000000 | 155.000000 | 145.000000 | 10.000000 | 21.000000 |
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 | Numeric | 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 |