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 |