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Resident Households by Type of Dwelling and Predominant Household Language (General Household Survey 2015)

Description

General Household Survey 2015 counts (in thousands) of Singapore resident households by type of dwelling and predominant household language, excluding one-person and unrelated-person-only households. Languages include English, Mandarin, Chinese dialects, Malay, and Indian languages. Housing and language researchers map language use across dwelling types. Adapted from SingStat TableBuilder CT/8611.

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/8611

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Values are summed where multiple rows share the same category.

Data

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 Indian Languages- Other Indian Languages Others
Total 1059.200000 388.200000 363.000000 139.900000 64.300000 28.200000 38.300000 9.100000 106.8 50.900000 37.700000 13.2 10.4
HDB Dwellings1/ 849.400000 253.600000 315.300000 124.600000 58.800000 25.900000 32.200000 7.700000 105.2 43.800000 35.300000 8.5 7
1- And 2-Room Flats2/ 41.400000 6.400000 8.900000 8.700000 5.200000 1.100000 2.100000 0.200000 14.8 2.600000 2.400000 0.2 na
3-Room Flats 166.900000 31.400000 62.100000 38.000000 18.200000 7.500000 10.200000 2.100000 22.3 11.300000 9.200000 2.1 1.9
4-Room Flats 359.600000 90.900000 149.400000 53.000000 25.600000 11.900000 12.200000 3.300000 45.2 17.900000 14.500000 3.5 3.3
5-Room And Executive Flats 280.800000 124.400000 94.800000 25.000000 9.700000 5.400000 7.700000 2.200000 23 12.000000 9.200000 2.8 1.7
Condominiums And Other Apartments 142.000000 88.900000 33.100000 9.800000 2.900000 1.200000 4.800000 0.800000 1.3 6.000000 1.800000 4.2 2.9
Landed Properties 64.800000 45.200000 13.100000 4.900000 2.200000 1.000000 1.200000 0.500000 0.2 0.900000 0.500000 0.4 0.5
Others 2.900000 0.600000 1.400000 0.700000 0.400000 0.100000 0.100000 0.100000 na 0.200000 0.200000 na na

Columns

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 Numeric No
Chinese Dialects- Cantonese Numeric No
Chinese Dialects- Other Chinese Dialects Numeric No
Malay Text No
Indian Languages- Total Numeric No
Indian Languages- Tamil Numeric No
Indian Languages- Other Indian Languages Text No
Others Text No