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Resident Population Aged 5 Years and Over by Type of Dwelling and Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home (General Household Survey 2015)

Description

General Household Survey 2015 table from the Singapore Department of Statistics cross-tabulating resident population aged five and over by dwelling type and language most frequently spoken at home, in thousands. Sociolinguistics and housing researchers study home-language patterns across HDB and private housing with noted exclusions for non-speaking persons and certain household types.

Official description

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS Data Last Updated: 23/03/2016 Update Frequency: 10 years Survey period: General Household Survey 2015 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 'General Household Survey 2015' (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/8604

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Values are summed where multiple rows share the same category.

Data

Thousands Total English Mandarin Chinese Dialects- Total Chinese Dialects- Hokkien Chinese Dialects- Teochew Chinese Dialects- Cantonese Chinese Dialects- Other Chinese Dialects Malay Indian Languages- Total Indian Languages- Tamil Indian Languages- Other Indian Languages Others
Total 3530.500000 1303.000000 1231.900000 430.300000 205.300000 86.500000 111.200000 27.400000 378.7 154.300000 117.100000 37.3 32.4
HDB Dwellings1/ 2898.000000 892.400000 1088.700000 384.000000 187.800000 79.000000 94.300000 23.000000 373.7 136.100000 110.300000 25.8 23
1-And 2-Room Flats2/ 105.200000 16.400000 22.900000 18.400000 11.400000 2.200000 4.500000 0.300000 41 6.400000 6.000000 0.4 0.1
3-Room Flats 503.800000 100.200000 192.400000 103.000000 50.400000 20.300000 27.100000 5.100000 70.5 32.500000 26.800000 5.8 5.2
4-Room Flats 1244.200000 314.900000 523.500000 168.900000 85.500000 36.700000 36.500000 10.100000 168.1 57.500000 46.300000 11.2 11.3
5-Room & Executive Flats 1043.100000 459.300000 349.900000 93.700000 40.400000 19.700000 26.200000 7.400000 94 39.700000 31.300000 8.5 6.5
Condominiums And Other Apartments 407.700000 261.800000 92.900000 26.600000 8.400000 3.300000 12.400000 2.500000 3.8 14.800000 4.600000 10.2 7.8
Landed Properties 217.600000 147.000000 46.600000 18.400000 8.300000 4.100000 4.400000 1.600000 1.1 2.900000 1.700000 1.3 1.6
Others 7.200000 1.800000 3.600000 1.300000 0.800000 0.100000 0.100000 0.300000 na 0.400000 0.400000 na na

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Column Type Categorical
Thousands Text No
Total Numeric No
English Numeric No
Mandarin Numeric No
Chinese Dialects- Total Numeric No
Chinese Dialects- Hokkien Numeric No
Chinese Dialects- Teochew Numeric No
Chinese Dialects- Cantonese Numeric No
Chinese Dialects- Other Chinese Dialects Numeric No
Malay Text No
Indian Languages- Total Numeric No
Indian Languages- Tamil Numeric No
Indian Languages- Other Indian Languages Text No
Others Text No