Resident Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Highest Qualification Attained and Ethnic Group (Chinese) (Census of Population 2020)
What this data shows
Published by Singapore Department of Statistics. 26 records. Fields include Number, (Chinese) Total, (Chinese) No Qualification, (Chinese) Primary (10 columns in total). Last updated 2026-09-05.
Description
Census of Population 2020 table for Chinese residents aged 15 and over by language most or second most frequently spoken at home and highest qualification attained, with exclusions for unable-to-speak persons and certain household types, in CSV from the Singapore Department of Statistics. Language policy researchers study home-language use and education among Chinese Singaporeans. Adapted from SingStat TableBuilder CT/17449.
Official description
Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS Data Last Updated: 16/06/2021 Update Frequency: 10 years Survey period: Census of Population 2020 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 were not attending educational institutions as full-time students and include those who were upgrading their qualifications through part-time courses. Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/17449
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Values are summed where multiple rows share the same category.
Data
| Number | (Chinese) Total | (Chinese) No Qualification | (Chinese) Primary | (Chinese) Lower Secondary | (Chinese) Secondary | (Chinese) Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary) | (Chinese) Polytechnic Diploma | (Chinese) Professional Qualification and Other Diploma | (Chinese) University |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 2159462.000000 | 236137.000000 | 118481.000000 | 177028.000000 | 329665.000000 | 200307.000000 | 209552.000000 | 149902.000000 | 738390.000000 |
| English1/ | 893851.000000 | 8657.000000 | 10827.000000 | 31796.000000 | 128207.000000 | 82808.000000 | 108685.000000 | 71173.000000 | 451698.000000 |
| English Only | 114220.000000 | 1346.000000 | 1394.000000 | 2830.000000 | 15122.000000 | 10550.000000 | 11036.000000 | 7455.000000 | 64487.000000 |
| English & Mandarin | 640304.000000 | 4089.000000 | 5721.000000 | 18647.000000 | 78480.000000 | 59352.000000 | 86773.000000 | 50986.000000 | 336254.000000 |
| English & Chinese Dialect | 118729.000000 | 2658.000000 | 3237.000000 | 9272.000000 | 31781.000000 | 11531.000000 | 9117.000000 | 11310.000000 | 39822.000000 |
| English & Malay | 14012.000000 | 531.000000 | 437.000000 | 887.000000 | 2374.000000 | 1097.000000 | 1334.000000 | 952.000000 | 6400.000000 |
| Mandarin1/ | 947025.000000 | 103957.000000 | 71808.000000 | 106710.000000 | 157854.000000 | 95965.000000 | 89535.000000 | 67346.000000 | 253851.000000 |
| Mandarin Only | 218924.000000 | 32268.000000 | 22142.000000 | 30317.000000 | 36240.000000 | 23233.000000 | 14658.000000 | 13945.000000 | 46121.000000 |
| Mandarin & English | 429369.000000 | 6698.000000 | 8697.000000 | 23020.000000 | 64258.000000 | 44378.000000 | 61886.000000 | 40136.000000 | 180296.000000 |
| Mandarin & Chinese Dialect | 295412.000000 | 64318.000000 | 40648.000000 | 52848.000000 | 56748.000000 | 27967.000000 | 12940.000000 | 13115.000000 | 26827.000000 |
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Columns
| Column | Type | Categorical |
|---|---|---|
| Number | Text | No |
| (Chinese) Total | Numeric | No |
| (Chinese) No Qualification | Numeric | No |
| (Chinese) Primary | Numeric | No |
| (Chinese) Lower Secondary | Numeric | No |
| (Chinese) Secondary | Numeric | No |
| (Chinese) Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary) | Numeric | No |
| (Chinese) Polytechnic Diploma | Numeric | No |
| (Chinese) Professional Qualification and Other Diploma | Numeric | No |
| (Chinese) University | Numeric | No |