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Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Ethnic Group and Sex (Census of Population 2000)

Description

Census of Population 2000 counts of resident population aged 5 and over by language most frequently spoken at home, ethnic group, and sex, excluding persons unable to speak and one-person or unrelated-person households. Language researchers compare home-language patterns across Chinese, Malay, Indian, and other residents. Adapted from SingStat TableBuilder CT/5959.

Official description

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS Data Last Updated: 28/09/2015 Update Frequency: 10 years Survey period: Census of Population 2000 Footnotes: Note: Data exclude persons who were unable to speak, and those in one-person households and households comprising unrelated persons. 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/5959

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Values are summed where multiple rows share the same category.

Data

Number (Total) Total (Total) Males (Total) Females (Chinese) Total (Chinese) Males (Chinese) Females (Malays) Total (Malays) Males (Malays) Females (Indians) Total (Indians) Males (Indians) Females (Others) Total (Others) Males (Others) Females
Total 2887552.000000 1433469.000000 1454083.000000 2236061.000000 1107850.000000 1128211.000000 405602.000000 202369.000000 203233.000000 211015.000000 107026.000000 103989.000000 34875.000000 16225 18650.000000
English 665087.000000 334047.000000 331040.000000 533948.000000 268003.000000 265945.000000 32173.000000 15112.000000 17060.000000 75079.000000 39202.000000 35878.000000 23887.000000 11730 12157.000000
Mandarin 1010539.000000 492180.000000 518359.000000 1008489.000000 491614.000000 516875.000000 303.000000 107.000000 196.000000 228.000000 142.000000 86.000000 1519.000000 317 1202.000000
Chinese Dialects 687272.000000 344807.000000 342465.000000 685760.000000 344373.000000 341387.000000 219.000000 90.000000 129.000000 193.000000 134.000000 59.000000 1100.000000 210 890.000000
Hokkien 329583.000000 172026.000000 157557.000000 328768.000000 171848.000000 156921.000000 136.000000 59.000000 77.000000 81.000000 62.000000 19.000000 598.000000 58 541.000000
Teochew 141569.000000 69645.000000 71924.000000 141337.000000 69587.000000 71749.000000 16.000000 5.000000 11.000000 38.000000 29.000000 10.000000 177.000000 24 153.000000
Cantonese 163703.000000 77764.000000 85938.000000 163279.000000 77576.000000 85702.000000 53.000000 21.000000 32.000000 58.000000 39.000000 19.000000 313.000000 128 185.000000
Other Chinese Dialects 52418.000000 25371.000000 27047.000000 52376.000000 25361.000000 27015.000000 14.000000 5.000000 10.000000 16.000000 5.000000 11.000000 11.000000 na 11.000000
Malay 406549.000000 203765.000000 202785.000000 5270.000000 2510.000000 2760.000000 371401.000000 186269.000000 185132.000000 24434.000000 12237.000000 12197.000000 5445.000000 2748 2696.000000
Indian Languages 110877.000000 55207.000000 55670.000000 61.000000 30.000000 30.000000 473.000000 274.000000 199.000000 110142.000000 54792.000000 55350.000000 201.000000 112 90.000000
Tamil 91015.000000 45444.000000 45571.000000 29.000000 5.000000 24.000000 286.000000 171.000000 115.000000 90621.000000 45228.000000 45392.000000 80.000000 40 40.000000
Other Indian Languages 19862.000000 9763.000000 10098.000000 32.000000 25.000000 6.000000 187.000000 103.000000 85.000000 19522.000000 9564.000000 9958.000000 121.000000 72 50.000000
Others 7228.000000 3464.000000 3764.000000 2534.000000 1320.000000 1214.000000 1032.000000 516.000000 516.000000 938.000000 520.000000 419.000000 2723.000000 1109 1615.000000

Columns

Column Type Categorical
Number Text No
(Total) Total Numeric No
(Total) Males Numeric No
(Total) Females Numeric No
(Chinese) Total Numeric No
(Chinese) Males Numeric No
(Chinese) Females Numeric No
(Malays) Total Numeric No
(Malays) Males Numeric No
(Malays) Females Numeric No
(Indians) Total Numeric No
(Indians) Males Numeric No
(Indians) Females Numeric No
(Others) Total Numeric No
(Others) Males Text No
(Others) Females Numeric No