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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 2010)

Description

Census of Population 2010 tabulation of resident population aged 5 and over by language most frequently spoken at home, residential status, and sex, published by the Singapore Department of Statistics in CSV format. Excludes persons unable to speak and certain household types per footnotes. Supports language policy research, bilingualism trends, and citizen versus permanent resident language profiles from the 2010 census.

Official description

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS Data Last Updated: 29/09/2015 Update Frequency: 10 years Survey period: Census of Population 2010 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 'Singapore Census of Population 2010, Statistical Release 1: Demographic Characteristics, 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/5981

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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 3399054.000000 1670982.000000 1728072.000000 2941100.000000 1467698.000000 1473402.000000 457955.000000 203285.000000 254670.000000
English 1097443.000000 550094.000000 547349.000000 965722.000000 486789.000000 478933.000000 131721.000000 63305.000000 68416.000000
Mandarin 1211505.000000 587455.000000 624049.000000 1033963.000000 515576.000000 518387.000000 177541.000000 71879.000000 105662.000000
Chinese Dialects 487031.000000 233827.000000 253204.000000 454717.000000 220494.000000 234223.000000 32314.000000 13333.000000 18981.000000
Hokkien 238843.000000 120001.000000 118842.000000 228627.000000 115920.000000 112707.000000 10215.000000 4081.000000 6135.000000
Teochew 94302.000000 44277.000000 50026.000000 91734.000000 43313.000000 48420.000000 2569.000000 964.000000 1605.000000
Cantonese 121136.000000 55178.000000 65959.000000 106025.000000 48803.000000 57222.000000 15111.000000 6375.000000 8736.000000
Other Chinese Dialects 32750.000000 14372.000000 18378.000000 28331.000000 12458.000000 15873.000000 4419.000000 1914.000000 2505.000000
Malay 414475.000000 206548.000000 207926.000000 399808.000000 202219.000000 197588.000000 14667.000000 4329.000000 10338.000000
Indian Languages 151000.000000 74994.000000 76006.000000 82324.000000 40143.000000 42181.000000 68676.000000 34851.000000 33825.000000
Tamil 110667.000000 55082.000000 55584.000000 70836.000000 34523.000000 36313.000000 39830.000000 20559.000000 19271.000000
Other Indian Languages 40334.000000 19912.000000 20422.000000 11488.000000 5620.000000 5867.000000 28846.000000 14291.000000 14555.000000
Others 37600.000000 18063.000000 19537.000000 4566.000000 2477.000000 2089.000000 33035.000000 15587.000000 17448.000000

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