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Resident Households by Predominant Household Language, Ethnic Group and Sex of Head of Household (Census of Population 2000)

Description

Census of Population 2000 counts of Singapore resident households by the predominant language spoken at home, cross-tabulated with the ethnic group and sex of the head of household. Figures cover Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Other ethnic groups, each split into male and female household heads. One-person households and households made up of unrelated persons are excluded. Sociolinguists and demographers use it to study home language use and language shift within ethnic communities in Singapore. Adapted from SingStat TableBuilder CT/9073.

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/9073

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Values are summed where multiple rows share the same category.

Data

Number (Total) Total (Total) Males (Total) Females (Chinese) Total (Chinese) Males (Chinese) Females (Malays) Total (Malays) Males (Malays) Females (Indians) Total (Indians) Males (Indians) Females (Others) Total (Others) Males (Others) Females
Total 828887.000000 709726.000000 119161.000000 648849.000000 554678 94171 103643 89856 13787 65698 56053 9645 10697 9139 1558
English 201571.000000 178321.000000 23250.000000 161321.000000 143668 17653 8440 7238 1202 23824 20557 3268 7986 6858 1128
Mandarin 281216.000000 250844.000000 30372.000000 280963.000000 250637 30327 40 35 5 51 51 na 162 121 41
Chinese Dialects 204322.000000 158537.000000 45786.000000 204076.000000 158333 45743 36 31 5 81 76 5 129 96 33
Hokkien 96050.000000 75324.000000 20726.000000 95949.000000 75245 20704 27 27 na 41 41 na 33 11 22
Teochew 41171.000000 31777.000000 9394.000000 41117.000000 31724 9394 na na na 25 25 na 28 28 na
Cantonese 51521.000000 39566.000000 11955.000000 51429.000000 39494 11934 10 5 5 15 10 5 68 57 11
Other Chinese Dialects 15581.000000 11869.000000 3712.000000 15581.000000 11869 3712 na na na na na na na na na
Malay 105176.000000 90915.000000 14260.000000 1697.000000 1368 329 94915 82408 12508 6957 5819 1138 1607 1321 286
Indian Languages 34715.000000 29473.000000 5242.000000 16.000000 11 5 90 66 24 34526 29313 5214 83 83 na
Tamil 28414.000000 23756.000000 4657.000000 5.000000 na 5 65 46 19 28304 23670 4634 40 40 na
Other Indian Languages 6302.000000 5717.000000 585.000000 11.000000 11 na 25 20 5 6223 5643 580 42 42 na
Others 1886.000000 1636.000000 250.000000 776.000000 660 116 122 78 44 258 238 20 731 660 71

Columns

Column Type Categorical
Number Text No
(Total) Total Numeric No
(Total) Males Numeric No
(Total) Females Numeric No
(Chinese) Total Numeric No
(Chinese) Males Text No
(Chinese) Females Text No
(Malays) Total Text No
(Malays) Males Text No
(Malays) Females Text No
(Indians) Total Text No
(Indians) Males Text No
(Indians) Females Text No
(Others) Total Text No
(Others) Males Text No
(Others) Females Text No