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Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Age Group, Ethnic Group and Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home (General Household Survey 2015)

Description

General Household Survey 2015 resident population aged 5 and over by age group, ethnic group, and language most frequently spoken at home (English, Mandarin, Chinese dialects, and others), in thousands, with exclusions noted in the metadata. Language planners study home-language patterns across Chinese, Malay, and Indian communities in Singapore.

Official description

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS Data Last Updated: 09/03/2016 Update Frequency: 10 years Survey period: General Household Survey 2015 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 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/8215

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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 995.500000 1227.100000 429.400000 9.500000 96.200000 351.200000 0.5 137.400000 17.300000 117.100000 37.300000 1.1 73.900000 3.9 33.2
5 - 9 92.500000 51.500000 1.200000 0.300000 13.100000 19.800000 0.1 14.500000 1.100000 9.100000 1.900000 0.1 8.100000 na 1.9
10 - 14 88.700000 59.000000 1.500000 0.600000 12.200000 24.200000 0.1 14.500000 0.800000 9.400000 2.300000 0.1 7.200000 0.4 1.9
15 - 19 96.200000 80.900000 2.700000 0.500000 11.100000 32.500000 na 12.300000 1.400000 6.700000 1.500000 0.2 5.300000 0.4 2.4
20 - 24 87.800000 93.400000 4.000000 0.900000 10.500000 34.000000 na 10.900000 1.800000 5.400000 1.100000 0.1 3.300000 0.4 1.1
25 - 29 69.100000 97.500000 7.900000 0.900000 8.300000 30.100000 na 9.000000 1.700000 6.100000 1.200000 0.1 3.100000 0.6 1.9
30 - 34 68.300000 108.500000 12.900000 1.200000 8.400000 24.300000 na 10.900000 1.500000 10.900000 5.200000 0.2 6.200000 0.2 3.1
35 - 39 80.000000 110.700000 21.400000 1.200000 7.600000 18.900000 0.2 10.900000 0.800000 13.600000 6.900000 na 8.700000 0.3 5.1
40 - 44 82.200000 110.300000 30.000000 0.800000 6.500000 19.200000 0.2 11.800000 1.000000 13.600000 5.800000 0.1 9.900000 0.3 6.4
45 - 49 73.400000 105.100000 31.500000 0.400000 6.300000 28.500000 na 11.000000 0.900000 9.300000 4.100000 0.2 8.000000 0.2 4.3
50 - 54 75.300000 119.000000 34.400000 0.600000 5.800000 31.800000 na 10.000000 1.400000 8.900000 2.700000 0.1 5.700000 0.3 2.5
55 - 59 70.900000 101.800000 45.900000 0.500000 2.300000 30.300000 na 8.200000 1.500000 7.600000 1.200000 na 2.400000 0.3 1.9
60 - 64 49.800000 85.300000 50.900000 0.400000 2.300000 21.400000 na 6.100000 1.700000 5.600000 1.100000 na 2.500000 0.1 0.4
65 - 69 34.600000 52.200000 55.100000 0.500000 1.100000 15.600000 na 3.500000 1.200000 4.500000 0.500000 na 1.800000 0.1 0.2
70 - 74 12.500000 25.900000 42.700000 0.200000 0.400000 7.900000 na 1.200000 0.400000 2.400000 0.400000 na 0.800000 0.2 0.1
75 & Over 14.200000 25.900000 87.200000 0.400000 0.400000 12.900000 na 2.600000 0.300000 4.000000 1.300000 na 0.800000 0.1 na

Columns

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/ Text Yes
(Indians) English Numeric No
(Indians) Malay Numeric No
(Indians) Tamil Numeric No
(Indians) Other Indian Languages Numeric No
(Indians) Others1/ Text Yes
(Others) English Numeric No
(Others) Malay Text No
(Others) Others1/ Text No