Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Age Group, Ethnic Group and Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home (General Household Survey 2005)
What this data shows
Published by Singapore Department of Statistics. 16 records. Fields include Number, (Chinese) English, (Chinese) Mandarin, (Chinese) Chinese Dialects (16 columns in total). Last updated 2026-09-15.
Description
General Household Survey 2005 CSV crossing age group, ethnic group, and language most frequently spoken at home for resident population aged 5 and over, published by the Singapore Department of Statistics. Excludes non-speakers and certain household types per footnotes. Language planners and sociologists study home-language patterns in mid-2000s Singapore. Adapted from CT/5965.
Official description
Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS Data Last Updated: 28/09/2015 Update Frequency: 10 years Survey period: General Household Survey 2005 Footnotes: Note: Data exclude persons who were unable to speak, and those in one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons. 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/5965
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 687849.000000 | 1130420.000000 | 571776.000000 | 7330.000000 | 56320.000000 | 376294.000000 | 1119 | 98481.000000 | 26827.000000 | 98097.000000 | 28199.000000 |
| 5 - 9 | 81548.000000 | 87609.000000 | 3046.000000 | 554.000000 | 8223.000000 | 36472.000000 | 78 | 11955.000000 | 2214.000000 | 8468.000000 | 2676.000000 |
| 10 - 14 | 78957.000000 | 101848.000000 | 4502.000000 | 457.000000 | 8089.000000 | 41986.000000 | 44 | 11093.000000 | 2664.000000 | 7999.000000 | 1821.000000 |
| 15 - 19 | 61091.000000 | 101927.000000 | 7609.000000 | 360.000000 | 6137.000000 | 38646.000000 | 74 | 9510.000000 | 3107.000000 | 5939.000000 | 938.000000 |
| 20 - 24 | 39801.000000 | 95175.000000 | 16596.000000 | 442.000000 | 4500.000000 | 30052.000000 | 92 | 6827.000000 | 2651.000000 | 5834.000000 | 851.000000 |
| 25 - 29 | 44713.000000 | 103176.000000 | 32950.000000 | 852.000000 | 4802.000000 | 22754.000000 | 170 | 6398.000000 | 1988.000000 | 7523.000000 | 2462.000000 |
| 30 - 34 | 61628.000000 | 107063.000000 | 42088.000000 | 781.000000 | 6249.000000 | 24461.000000 | 287 | 8652.000000 | 1762.000000 | 11242.000000 | 5616.000000 |
| 35 - 39 | 69207.000000 | 105369.000000 | 39637.000000 | 679.000000 | 5660.000000 | 31440.000000 | 70 | 10265.000000 | 1684.000000 | 11001.000000 | 4390.000000 |
| 40 - 44 | 71065.000000 | 113820.000000 | 41922.000000 | 725.000000 | 5472.000000 | 36376.000000 | 63 | 10428.000000 | 2318.000000 | 10089.000000 | 2911.000000 |
| 45 - 49 | 66283.000000 | 103929.000000 | 50678.000000 | 668.000000 | 3351.000000 | 33075.000000 | 110 | 8584.000000 | 2205.000000 | 7909.000000 | 1537.000000 |
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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* | Text | 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 |