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Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Highest Qualification Attained, Ethnic Group and Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home (General Household Survey 2005)

Description

General Household Survey 2005 resident population aged 15 and over by highest qualification attained, ethnic group, and language most frequently spoken at home. Education and language researchers study qualification–language patterns; exclusions apply for non-speakers and certain households. Adapted from SingStat TableBuilder CT/5963.

Official description

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS Data Last Updated: 28/09/2015 Update Frequency: 10 years Survey period: General Household Survey 2005 Footnotes: Notes: Data exclude those who were unable to speak, and those in one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons. Data exclude residents who were students. For more information, please refer to the publication on 'General Household Survey 2005, Statistical Release 1: Socio-Demographic and Economic Characteristics' (https://www.singstat.gov.sg/find-data/explore-data-themes/population/education-language-spoken-and-literacy/related-information). Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/5963

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Values are summed where multiple rows share the same category.

Data

Number (Chinese) English (Chinese) Mandarin (Chinese) Chinese Dialects (Chinese) Others* (Malays) English (Malays) Malay (Malays) Others* (Indians) English (Indians) Malay (Indians) Tamil (Indians) Other Indian Languages (Indians) Others* (Others) English (Others) Malay (Others) Others*
Total 454467.000000 822492.000000 553145.000000 5845.000000 33456.000000 263509.000000 941.000000 64964.000000 19252.000000 75373.000000 22791.000000 797.000000 30576.000000 6064.000000 11386.000000
Below Secondary 37397.000000 298357.000000 366661.000000 1670.000000 4305.000000 126351.000000 340.000000 10162.000000 9782.000000 31249.000000 3817.000000 267.000000 3883.000000 2566.000000 2959.000000
Secondary 109479.000000 183162.000000 76045.000000 799.000000 11667.000000 80455.000000 165.000000 18787.000000 5254.000000 14663.000000 2518.000000 64.000000 6189.000000 1715.000000 881.000000
Post Secondary** 151294.000000 216920.000000 70916.000000 1015.000000 12875.000000 51505.000000 218.000000 19618.000000 3705.000000 13126.000000 4050.000000 168.000000 8927.000000 1507.000000 1904.000000
University 156296.000000 124053.000000 39522.000000 2362.000000 4608.000000 5198.000000 218.000000 16398.000000 512.000000 16335.000000 12405.000000 298.000000 11578.000000 276.000000 5642.000000

Columns

Column Type Categorical
Number Text No
(Chinese) English Numeric No
(Chinese) Mandarin Numeric No
(Chinese) Chinese Dialects Numeric No
(Chinese) Others* Numeric No
(Malays) English Numeric No
(Malays) Malay Numeric No
(Malays) Others* Numeric No
(Indians) English Numeric No
(Indians) Malay Numeric No
(Indians) Tamil Numeric No
(Indians) Other Indian Languages Numeric No
(Indians) Others* Numeric No
(Others) English Numeric No
(Others) Malay Numeric No
(Others) Others* Numeric No