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Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most / Second Most Frequently Spoken at Home, Type of Dwelling and Ethnic Group (Malays) (Census of Population 2020)

Description

Census of Population 2020 table from the Singapore Department of Statistics counting Malay residents aged 5 and over by the language most and second most frequently spoken at home and by type of dwelling. Dwelling columns cover HDB flats from 1- and 2-room through 5-room and executive units, plus condominiums and other apartments, landed properties, and others. Sociolinguists and housing researchers use it to see how Malay, English, and other home languages vary with housing type in Singapore. Adapted from SingStat TableBuilder CT/17443.

Official description

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS Data Last Updated: 16/06/2021 Update Frequency: 10 years Survey period: Census of Population 2020 Footnotes: Note: Data exclude persons who were unable to speak, and those in one-person households and households comprising only unrelated persons. Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/17443

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Values are summed where multiple rows share the same category.

Data

Number (Malays) Total [Malays] (HDB Dwellings) Total [Malays] (HDB Dwellings) 1- and 2-Room Flats3/ [Malays] (HDB Dwellings) 3-Room Flats [Malays] (HDB Dwellings) 4-Room Flats [Malays] (HDB Dwellings) 5-Room and Executive Flats (Malays) Condominium and Other Apartments (Malays) Landed Properties (Malays) Others
Total 496659.000000 479563.000000 56551.000000 89241.000000 198324.000000 135447.000000 12923.000000 4058.000000 115
English1/ 193870.000000 180810.000000 16766.000000 28993.000000 72476.000000 62576.000000 9939.000000 3065.000000 56
English Only 9416.000000 8164.000000 623.000000 1767.000000 3132.000000 2642.000000 975.000000 277.000000 -
English & Malay 180932.000000 170129.000000 15948.000000 26832.000000 68339.000000 59011.000000 8147.000000 2599.000000 56
Malay1/ 301445.000000 297546.000000 39540.000000 59898.000000 125509.000000 72600.000000 2854.000000 987.000000 58
Malay Only 72819.000000 72373.000000 12860.000000 19060.000000 28522.000000 11931.000000 337.000000 86.000000 22
Malay & English 227674.000000 224227.000000 26509.000000 40461.000000 96729.000000 60528.000000 2517.000000 894.000000 36
Other Languages2/ 1344.000000 1207.000000 246.000000 350.000000 340.000000 271.000000 130.000000 6.000000 -

Columns

Column Type Categorical
Number Text No
(Malays) Total Numeric No
[Malays] (HDB Dwellings) Total Numeric No
[Malays] (HDB Dwellings) 1- and 2-Room Flats3/ Numeric No
[Malays] (HDB Dwellings) 3-Room Flats Numeric No
[Malays] (HDB Dwellings) 4-Room Flats Numeric No
[Malays] (HDB Dwellings) 5-Room and Executive Flats Numeric No
(Malays) Condominium and Other Apartments Numeric No
(Malays) Landed Properties Numeric No
(Malays) Others Text No