Resident Students Aged 5 Years and Over by Level of Education Attending, Ethnic Group and Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home (General Household Survey 2015)
What this data shows
Published by Singapore Department of Statistics. 8 records. Fields include Thousands, (Chinese) English, (Chinese) Mandarin, (Chinese) Chinese Dialects (16 columns in total). Last updated 2026-09-04.
Description
General Household Survey 2015 table of resident students aged 5 and over by level of education, ethnic group, and language most frequently spoken at home. Chinese, Malay, and Indian groups split across English, Mandarin, dialects, Malay, Tamil, and other languages in thousands. Education sociologists in Singapore study home-language patterns by schooling level and ethnicity. SingStat footnotes exclude specified household types and non-speaking persons.
Official description
Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS Data Last Updated: 09/03/2016 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/8216
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Values are summed where multiple rows share the same category.
Data
| Thousands | (Chinese) English | (Chinese) Mandarin | (Chinese) Chinese Dialects | (Chinese) Others1/ | (Malays) English | (Malays) Malay | (Malays) Others1/ | (Indians) English | (Indians) Malay | (Indians) Tamil | (Indians) Other Indian Languages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 311.000000 | 219.000000 | 7.000000 | 1.600000 | 38.500000 | 78.500000 | 0.200000 | 43.900000 | 3.300000 | 25.800000 | 5.900000 |
| Pre-Primary | 25.500000 | 13.300000 | 0.200000 | 0.000000 | 3.200000 | 5.800000 | 0.000000 | 3.700000 | 0.300000 | 1.900000 | 0.400000 |
| Primary | 109.200000 | 63.800000 | 1.700000 | 0.600000 | 15.800000 | 24.500000 | 0.100000 | 17.900000 | 1.200000 | 12.100000 | 3.000000 |
| Secondary | 78.500000 | 59.700000 | 1.800000 | 0.500000 | 10.400000 | 25.300000 | 0.000000 | 11.700000 | 0.800000 | 7.000000 | 1.400000 |
| Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary) | 22.900000 | 16.300000 | 0.400000 | 0.000000 | 2.300000 | 8.800000 | 0.000000 | 3.800000 | 0.300000 | 1.900000 | 0.400000 |
| Polytechnic | 28.500000 | 28.900000 | 1.300000 | 0.200000 | 4.200000 | 8.900000 | 0.000000 | 3.200000 | 0.400000 | 1.600000 | 0.300000 |
| Professional Qualification And Other Diploma | 2.700000 | 3.400000 | 0.200000 | 0.000000 | 0.800000 | 1.700000 | 0.000000 | 0.700000 | 0.000000 | 0.300000 | 0.000000 |
| University | 43.700000 | 33.500000 | 1.500000 | 0.200000 | 1.900000 | 3.500000 | 0.000000 | 3.100000 | 0.200000 | 0.900000 | 0.500000 |
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Columns
| Column | Type | Categorical |
|---|---|---|
| Thousands | Text | No |
| (Chinese) English | Numeric | No |
| (Chinese) Mandarin | Numeric | No |
| (Chinese) Chinese Dialects | Numeric | No |
| (Chinese) Others1/ | Numeric | No |
| (Malays) English | Numeric | No |
| (Malays) Malay | Numeric | No |
| (Malays) Others1/ | Numeric | No |
| (Indians) English | Numeric | No |
| (Indians) Malay | Numeric | No |
| (Indians) Tamil | Numeric | No |
| (Indians) Other Indian Languages | Numeric | No |
| (Indians) Others1/ | Numeric | No |
| (Others) English | Numeric | No |
| (Others) Malay | Numeric | No |
| (Others) Others1/ | Numeric | No |