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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 2015)

Description

General Household Survey 2015 table on Singapore residents aged 15 and over by highest qualification attained, ethnic group, and language most frequently spoken at home, in thousands. Excludes full-time students and specified household types. Supports language-in-education and ethnic integration research.

Official description

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS Data Last Updated: 11/03/2016 Update Frequency: 10 years Survey period: General Household Survey 2015 Footnotes: Notes:Data exclude persons who were unable to speak, and those in one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons.Data pertain to residents who are not attending educational institutions as full-time students. The data include those who are upgrading their qualifications through part-time courses while working. For more information, please refer to the publication on 'General Household Survey 2015' (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/8362

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Values are summed where multiple rows share the same category.

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Thousands (Chinese) English (Chinese) Mandarin (Chinese) Chinese Dialects (Chinese) Others1/ (Malays) English (Malays) Malay (Malays) Others1/ (Indians) English (Indians) Malay (Indians) Tamil (Indians) Other Indian Languages (Indians) Others1/ (Others) English (Others) Malay (Others) Others1/
Total 684.100000 1007.900000 422.400000 7.900000 57.600000 272.600000 0.300000 93.500000 14.000000 91.200000 31.400000 0.700000 52.700000 3.100000 26.800000
No Qualification 6.700000 99.000000 168.400000 0.800000 1.000000 38.400000 0.000000 1.500000 2.200000 9.500000 1.300000 0.000000 0.700000 0.400000 1.200000
Primary 8.700000 82.800000 52.300000 0.300000 1.900000 28.100000 0.000000 3.000000 1.700000 7.800000 0.700000 0.000000 0.600000 0.200000 0.900000
Lower Secondary 22.500000 100.200000 43.500000 0.500000 2.700000 31.900000 0.100000 5.800000 1.600000 8.100000 1.200000 0.000000 1.500000 0.400000 1.100000
Secondary 125.800000 195.400000 62.300000 0.800000 14.500000 68.300000 0.000000 17.300000 3.000000 15.400000 2.900000 0.000000 5.000000 0.500000 1.500000
Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary) 68.400000 102.600000 24.200000 0.700000 11.900000 53.400000 0.000000 10.600000 2.300000 8.400000 1.200000 0.000000 4.800000 0.300000 1.300000
Polytechnic 75.700000 110.500000 14.600000 0.300000 9.200000 25.900000 0.000000 9.100000 1.500000 7.300000 1.400000 0.100000 2.800000 0.400000 0.700000
Professional Qualification And Other Diploma 64.900000 77.600000 15.900000 0.300000 5.800000 12.600000 0.000000 9.000000 0.600000 5.800000 2.200000 0.000000 5.700000 0.100000 1.300000
University 311.400000 240.000000 41.200000 4.300000 10.500000 14.000000 0.200000 37.200000 0.900000 28.900000 20.400000 0.600000 31.600000 0.800000 18.800000

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Column Type Categorical
Thousands Text No
(Chinese) English Numeric No
(Chinese) Mandarin Numeric No
(Chinese) Chinese Dialects Numeric No
(Chinese) Others1/ Numeric No
(Malays) English Numeric No
(Malays) Malay Numeric No
(Malays) Others1/ Numeric No
(Indians) English Numeric No
(Indians) Malay Numeric No
(Indians) Tamil Numeric No
(Indians) Other Indian Languages Numeric No
(Indians) Others1/ Numeric No
(Others) English Numeric No
(Others) Malay Numeric No
(Others) Others1/ Numeric No