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

Description

Census of Population 2000 table of resident population aged 5 and over by language most frequently spoken at home, residential status, and sex, excluding persons unable to speak and one-person or unrelated-only households. Demographers study home-language patterns among citizens and permanent residents using the Singapore Department of Statistics CSV. Adapted from SingStat TableBuilder CT/5961.

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/5961

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Values are summed where multiple rows share the same category.

Data

Number (Total) Total (Total) Males (Total) Females (Singapore Citizens) Total (Singapore Citizens) Males (Singapore Citizens) Females (Permanent Residents) Total (Permanent Residents) Males (Permanent Residents) Females
Total 2887552.000000 1433469.000000 1454083.000000 2644688.000000 1321725.000000 1322963.000000 242865.000000 111744.000000 131120.000000
English 665087.000000 334047.000000 331041.000000 610041.000000 305969.000000 304072.000000 55046.000000 28077.000000 26968.000000
Mandarin 1010539.000000 492180.000000 518359.000000 899867.000000 443305.000000 456562.000000 110672.000000 48875.000000 61797.000000
Chinese Dialects 687272.000000 344807.000000 342465.000000 651854.000000 329208.000000 322646.000000 35418.000000 15598.000000 19820.000000
Hokkien 329583.000000 172026.000000 157557.000000 317637.000000 166896.000000 150741.000000 11946.000000 5131.000000 6816.000000
Teochew 141569.000000 69645.000000 71924.000000 138834.000000 68653.000000 70181.000000 2734.000000 992.000000 1742.000000
Cantonese 163703.000000 77764.000000 85938.000000 147534.000000 70334.000000 77201.000000 16168.000000 7431.000000 8738.000000
Other Chinese Dialects 52418.000000 25371.000000 27047.000000 47849.000000 23326.000000 24523.000000 4569.000000 2045.000000 2524.000000
Malay 406549.000000 203765.000000 202785.000000 393856.000000 199316.000000 194540.000000 12693.000000 4449.000000 8244.000000
Indian Languages 110877.000000 55207.000000 55670.000000 85591.000000 42150.000000 43441.000000 25286.000000 13057.000000 12229.000000
Tamil 91015.000000 45444.000000 45571.000000 74871.000000 36801.000000 38070.000000 16144.000000 8643.000000 7501.000000
Other Indian Languages 19862.000000 9763.000000 10098.000000 10720.000000 5349.000000 5371.000000 9142.000000 4414.000000 4727.000000
Others 7228.000000 3464.000000 3764.000000 3478.000000 1777.000000 1701.000000 3750.000000 1687.000000 2063.000000

Columns

Column Type Categorical
Number Text No
(Total) Total Numeric No
(Total) Males Numeric No
(Total) Females Numeric No
(Singapore Citizens) Total Numeric No
(Singapore Citizens) Males Numeric No
(Singapore Citizens) Females Numeric No
(Permanent Residents) Total Numeric No
(Permanent Residents) Males Numeric No
(Permanent Residents) Females Numeric No