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Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Language Literate In, Marital Status and Sex (Census of Population 2000)

Description

Census of Population 2000 counts of Singapore residents aged 15 and over by language literate in, marital status, and sex. Demographers and education researchers analyse literacy and household formation patterns at the 2000 census benchmark. Adapted from SingStat TableBuilder CT/6563; see Statistical Release 2 on education, language and religion.

Official description

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS Data Last Updated: 29/10/2015 Update Frequency: 10 years Survey period: Census of Population 2000 Footnotes: For more information, please refer to the publication on 'Singapore Census of Population 2000, Statistical Release 2: Education, Language and Religion' (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/6563

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Values are summed where multiple rows share the same category.

Data

Number (Total) Total (Total) Males (Total) Females (Single) Total (Single) Males (Single) Females (Married) Total (Married) Males (Married) Females (Widowed) Total (Widowed) Males (Widowed) Females (Divorced/Separated) Total (Divorced/Separated) Males (Divorced/Separated) Females
Total 2494630.000000 1229758.000000 1264872.000000 760352.000000 413343.000000 347010.000000 1543246.000000 770956.000000 772291.000000 129237 22581 106657 61794 22879 38915
Not Literate 185865.000000 42240.000000 143624.000000 19526.000000 11621.000000 7905.000000 100385.000000 26055.000000 74330.000000 60026 3235 56792 5927 1330 4598
Literate 2308766.000000 1187518.000000 1121248.000000 740826.000000 401722.000000 339105.000000 1442861.000000 744901.000000 697961.000000 69211 19346 49865 55867 21550 34317
One Language Only 1015302.000000 514708.000000 500595.000000 177849.000000 103517.000000 74332.000000 749492.000000 384448.000000 365044.000000 56194 14273 41921 31767 12468 19298
Chinese Only 580369.000000 284546.000000 295823.000000 68864.000000 44069.000000 24795.000000 454649.000000 223186.000000 231463.000000 38469 9990 28480 18386 7301 11085
English Only 353801.000000 199217.000000 154584.000000 102225.000000 55312.000000 46913.000000 233095.000000 137305.000000 95789.000000 8295 2295 6000 10186 4304 5882
Malay Only 62721.000000 24047.000000 38674.000000 5776.000000 3432.000000 2344.000000 48112.000000 18434.000000 29678.000000 6153 1430 4723 2680 750 1929
Tamil Only 15293.000000 6438.000000 8854.000000 863.000000 621.000000 242.000000 11379.000000 5211.000000 6168.000000 2650 515 2135 401 91 309
Non-Official Language Only 3119.000000 460.000000 2660.000000 121.000000 83.000000 38.000000 2258.000000 312.000000 1946.000000 627 43 583 114 21 93
Two Languages Only 1244466.000000 646549.000000 597917.000000 549701.000000 291823.000000 257878.000000 659149.000000 341131.000000 318018.000000 12453 4882 7571 23164 8714 14450
English & Chinese Only 877510.000000 449792.000000 427718.000000 429313.000000 224511.000000 204802.000000 427860.000000 216795.000000 211065.000000 6510 3041 3468 13828 5445 8383
English & Malay Only 283342.000000 154707.000000 128635.000000 98415.000000 55026.000000 43389.000000 173490.000000 95573.000000 77916.000000 3729 1355 2374 7709 2753 4956
English & Tamil Only 64074.000000 33665.000000 30409.000000 19801.000000 11125.000000 8676.000000 41422.000000 21734.000000 19689.000000 1510 369 1141 1341 437 903
English & Non-Official Language Only 13809.000000 6294.000000 7516.000000 1697.000000 884.000000 813.000000 11706.000000 5311.000000 6395.000000 249 52 196 157 45 112
Other Two Languages Only 5731.000000 2092.000000 3639.000000 475.000000 277.000000 198.000000 4671.000000 1718.000000 2953.000000 457 65 392 129 33 96
Three Or More Languages 48997.000000 26261.000000 22736.000000 13277.000000 6382.000000 6895.000000 34220.000000 19321.000000 14899.000000 563 191 373 937 367 569
English, Chinese & Malay Only 26840.000000 14211.000000 12629.000000 7172.000000 3511.000000 3661.000000 19139.000000 10453.000000 8686.000000 164 92 72 365 154 211
English, Chinese & Tamil Only 117.000000 69.000000 48.000000 48.000000 29.000000 19.000000 69.000000 41.000000 29.000000 na na na na na na
English, Malay & Tamil Only 8374.000000 4989.000000 3385.000000 1572.000000 913.000000 660.000000 6257.000000 3936.000000 2321.000000 247 29 218 297 111 186
Other Three Or More Languages 13666.000000 6992.000000 6674.000000 4484.000000 1929.000000 2555.000000 8755.000000 4891.000000 3864.000000 152 69 83 275 103 172

Columns

Column Type Categorical
Number Text No
(Total) Total Numeric No
(Total) Males Numeric No
(Total) Females Numeric No
(Single) Total Numeric No
(Single) Males Numeric No
(Single) Females Numeric No
(Married) Total Numeric No
(Married) Males Numeric No
(Married) Females Numeric No
(Widowed) Total Text No
(Widowed) Males Text No
(Widowed) Females Text No
(Divorced/Separated) Total Text No
(Divorced/Separated) Males Text No
(Divorced/Separated) Females Text No