The Singapore Indian Community In Figures 2011

1The Singapore Indian Community in Figures 2011

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1. Population 1.1. Resident Population of Indians 1.1.1. Ethnic Composition of Indians in Singapore 1.1.2. Singapore Indian Citizen and Permanent Resident Population 1.1.3. Sex Ratio by Age Group 1.1.4. Sex Ratio (Number of Males for every 1,000 females) 1.1.5. Median Age of Indians 1.1.6. Language Composition of Indian Population 1.1.7. Marital Status of Indians Aged 15 & Over 1.2. Resident Indians by Sex 1.3. Resident Indian Population Aged 15 Years and Over by Religion 1.4. Planning Zones with the Largest Indian Populations (Top 5)

2. Standard of Living 2.1. Standard of Living •CrudeBirthRateof Indians(per1000ResidentPopulation) •CrudeDeathRateof Indians(per1000ResidentPopulation) •InfantMortalityRateof Indians(per1000LiveBirths) •TotalFertilityRateof Indians(perResidentEver-MarriedFemale) •AgeDependencyRatio(per100personsaged15-64years) 2.2. Pregnancy Rate Amongst Indians 2.3. Tenancy of Resident Indian Households 2.4. Resident Indian Households by Type of Dwelling 25. Average Indian Household Size 2.6. Resident Indian Monthly Household Income from Work

3. Economic and Labour Force 3.1. Occupational Distribution of Resident Indian Workforce 3.2. Distribution of Resident Indian Workforce by Industry 3.3. Resident Indian Household by Economic Status 3.4. Economic Status by Resident Indian Household

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2 The Singapore Indian Community in Figures 2011

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4. Education 4.1. Literacy Rate of Indian Residents Aged 15 Years and Over 4.2. Resident Indians Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home 4.3. HighestQualificationAttainedbyIndianResidentNon-Students Aged 15 Years and Over 4.4. AdmissionintoPost-SecondaryInstitutions 4.5. Field of Study for Indians who are Polytechnic or University Graduates 4.6. Performanceof IndianStudentsatNationalExams •PSLEIndianPupilsEligibleforSecondarySchool •PSLEIndianPupilsWhoScoredA*-CinEnglish •PSLEIndianPupilsWhoScoredA*-CinMaths •PSLEIndianPupilsWhoScoredA*-CinScience •PSLEIndianPupilsWhoScoredA*-CinMotherTongue •GCE‘O’LevelIndianPupilswithAtLeast5O-Levelpasses •GCE‘O’LevelIndianPupilswhoPassedEnglish •GCE‘O’LevelIndianPupilsWhoPassedMaths •GCE‘O’LevelIndianPupilsWhoPassedMotherTongue •GCE‘A’LevelIndianStudentswithAtLeast3‘H2’passesandPassinGeneral

Paper/KnowledgeInquiry •GCE‘A’LevelIndianPupilsWhoPassedGeneralPaper/KnowledgeInquiry •GCE‘A’LevelIndianStudentsWhoPassedMotherTongue

5. Marriages and Divorces 5.1. Marriages and Divorces •Numberof Remarriages •Numberof MinorMarriagesof Brides(under20years) •Numberof MinorMarriagesof Grooms(under20years) •MedianAgeof Brides •MedianAgeof Grooms •Numberof Divorces •MeanDurationof Marriageof CouplesDivorced(Years) 5.2. Indian Divorces by Age Group

6. Social Indicators 6.1. Indian Drug Abusers 6.2. Indian Inhalant Abusers 6.3. SingleParent-RegisteredBirths(per10,000FemaleResidents) 6.4. School Dropout

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4. Education 4.1. Literacy Rate of Indian Residents Aged 15 Years and Over 4.2. Resident Indians Aged 5 Years and Over by Language Most Frequently Spoken at Home 4.3. HighestQualificationAttainedbyIndianResidentNon-Students Aged 15 Years and Over 4.4. AdmissionintoPost-SecondaryInstitutions 4.5. Field of Study for Indians who are Polytechnic or University Graduates 4.6. Performanceof IndianStudentsatNationalExams •PSLEIndianPupilsEligibleforSecondarySchool •PSLEIndianPupilsWhoScoredA*-CinEnglish •PSLEIndianPupilsWhoScoredA*-CinMaths •PSLEIndianPupilsWhoScoredA*-CinScience •PSLEIndianPupilsWhoScoredA*-CinMotherTongue •GCE‘O’LevelIndianPupilswithAtLeast5O-Levelpasses •GCE‘O’LevelIndianPupilswhoPassedEnglish •GCE‘O’LevelIndianPupilsWhoPassedMaths •GCE‘O’LevelIndianPupilsWhoPassedMotherTongue •GCE‘A’LevelIndianStudentswithAtLeast3‘H2’passesandPassinGeneral

Paper/KnowledgeInquiry •GCE‘A’LevelIndianPupilsWhoPassedGeneralPaper/KnowledgeInquiry •GCE‘A’LevelIndianStudentsWhoPassedMotherTongue

5. Marriages and Divorces 5.1. Marriages and Divorces •Numberof Remarriages •Numberof MinorMarriagesof Brides(under20years) •Numberof MinorMarriagesof Grooms(under20years) •MedianAgeof Brides •MedianAgeof Grooms •Numberof Divorces •MeanDurationof Marriageof CouplesDivorced(Years) 5.2. Indian Divorces by Age Group

6. Social Indicators 6.1. Indian Drug Abusers 6.2. Indian Inhalant Abusers 6.3. SingleParent-RegisteredBirths(per10,000FemaleResidents) 6.4. School Dropout

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17%

83%

Permanent Residents(42,716 persons)

Singapore Citizen(213,150 persons)

32%

68%

Permanent Residents

Singapore Citizens

1.POPULATION1.1. Resident Population of Indians

1.1.1. Ethnic Composition of Indians in Singapore

1.1.2. Singapore Indian Citizen and Permanent Resident Population

Source:Censusof Population2010,StatisticalRelease1(SingaporeDepartmentof Statistics)

74%

14%

9% 3%

Chinese

Malay

Indians

Others

Ethnic Indian Population 2000 2010Resident Population of Indians 7.9% 9.2%

Numberof IndiansinSingapore 257, 900 348, 119



2000

2010


1.1.3. Sex Ratio by Age Group

1.1.4. Sex Ratio (Number of Males for every 1,000 females)

2000 1,087

2010 1,075Source:Censusof Population2010,StatisticalRelease1(SingaporeDepartmentof Statistics)


1.1.5. Median Age of Indians2000 32.8

2010 33.4


1.1.6. Language Composition of Singapore Indian Population

0% 5 % 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40%

0-14

15-34

35-54

55-64

65-79

80 & Over

Females Males

21%22%

30%33%

36%30%

8%8%

4%5%

1%1%

2000 2010Tamil 150,181 58.2 % 188,591 54.2 %

Malayalee 21,745 8.4 % 26,348 7.6 %

Hindi 3,941 1.5 % 13,085 3.8 %

Sikh 13,260 5.1 % 12,952 3.7 %

Punjabi 4,722 1.8 % 5,672 1.6 %

Hindustani 5,062 2.0 % 4,818 1.4 %

Urdu 2,997 1.2 % 4,773 1.4 %

Gujarati 3,254 1.3 % 4,124 1.2 %

Sindhi 4,005 1.6 % 3,971 1.1 %

Singhalese 2,422 0.9 % 3,140 0.9 %

Others 46,277 18.0 % 80,645 23.2 %

Source:Censusof Population2000,StatisticalRelease1(SingaporeDepartmentof Statistics) Censusof Population2010,StatisticalRelease1(SingaporeDepartmentof Statistics)


1.2. Resident Indians by Sex

2000 2010

Total Indian Population: 257,866 348, 119Males 134,337 52.1% 180, 327 51.8%

Females 123,529 47.9% 167, 792 48.2%


1.1.7. Marital Status of Indians Aged 15 & Over

Single Married Widowed Divorced

28%25.9% 23.7%

68.6%66.5% 64.3%

1.3%

4.5%8%

2.1%

3% 4%

Single Married Widowed Divorced

National

Indian Male

Indian Females

28.7%30.5%

22.8%

67.9%

61.9%64.4%

1.8%

5.2%9.2%

1.7%

2.5% 3.7%

2000

2010


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1.3ResidentIndianPopulationAged15YearsandOverbyReligion

1.4.PlanningZoneswiththeLargestIndianResidentPopulations(Top5)

Planning Zones Number of IndiansWoodlands 27, 162

Jurong West 27, 134

Bedok 25, 348

Tampines 21, 411

Yishun 19, 730



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40

50

60

70

80

90

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2000 2010

1% 1%1% 1%

25% 22%

55% 58%

5% 4%

12% 13%1% 1%

Others

Christianity

Sikhism

Hinduism

Islam

Buddhism

No Religion


2.STANDARDOFLIVING

2.1. Standard of Living 2005 2010

CrudeBirthRateof Indians(per1,000ResidentPopulation)

11.3 persons 11.3 persons

Crude Death Rate of Indians (per1,000ResidentPopulation)


Infant Mortality Rate of Indians (per1,000LiveBirths)


Total Fertility Rate of Indians (perResidentEver-MarriedFemale)


Age Dependency Ratio (per100personsaged15-64)


Sources:SingaporeDemographicBulletin,November2006(Immigration&CheckpointsAuthority) SingaporeDemographicBulletin,April2011(Immigration&CheckpointsAuthority) Censusof Population2010,StatisticalRelease1(SingaporeDepartmentof Statistics)

2.2. Pregnancy Rate Amongst Indians

2005 2011

National Indians National IndiansLive-BirthsforMothersAged15-19

753 64 208 27

Live-BirthsforMothersAged20–29

13,620 1,506 4, 453 524

Live-BirthsforMothersAged30–39

18,941 1,389 7, 355 704

Live-BirthsforMothersAged40andover

1,008 76 406 25

Source:SingaporeDemographicBulletin,November2006(Immigration&CheckpointsAuthority) SingaporeDemographicBulletin,April2011(Immigration&CheckpointsAuthority)


2.4.ResidentIndianHouseholdsbyTypeof Dwelling

2.3.Tenancyof ResidentIndianHouseholds

2000

Owner Tenant Others

62,760 (86.1 %) 9,489 (13 %) 684 (0.9 %)

2010

Owner Tenant Others

83, 052 (77.3 %) 23, 590 (21.9 %) 866 (0.8 %)


2000(%) 2010(%)1&2RoomHDBFlats 8.1 4.9

3RoomHDBFlats 24.4 21

4RoomHDBFlats 31.8 32

5RoomandExecutiveHDBFlats 24.5 24.6

Condominium & Private Flats 5.2 11.9

Landed Properties 4.4 4.4

Other Dwellings 1.3 1


2.5.AverageIndianHouseholdSize

2000 2010Average Indian Household Size 3.7 persons 3.6 persons


2.6.ResidentIndianMonthlyHouseholdIncomefromWork

2000 2010NationalAverage $ 4, 988 $ 7, 214

Indian Average $ 4, 623 $ 7, 664

Indian Median $ 3, 438 $ 5, 370






3.ECONOMICANDLABOURFORCE

3.1.OccupationalDistributionof ResidentIndianWorkforce

3.2.Distributionof ResidentIndianWorkforcebyIndustry


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0%2%4%6%8%

10%12%14%16%

Senior Officials & Managers

Professionals

Assoc Professionals & Technicians

Clerical

Services & Sales

Craftsmen & Related

Plant & Machine Operators

Cleaners & Labourers

Not Classifiable

14.1%

20.5%

22.6%

11.4%

12.6%

4.3%5.8%

5.7% 2.9%


2000

2010

12.5%

12.7%

18%

15.4%

13.7%

4.4%

11%8% 4.2%


3.4.EconomicStatusbyIndianResidentHousehold


3.3.ResidentIndianHouseholdbyEconomicStatus


2010

Economically Active Employed Total 89, 874 (83.6%)Males 79, 975 (89%) Females 9, 900 (11%)

Economically Active Unemployed Total 2,472 (2.3%)Males 1, 894 (76.6%) Females 578 (23.4%)

Economically Inactive Employed Total 15, 161 (14.1%)

Males 9, 023 (59.5%) Females 6, 138 (40.5%)

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90% 83.6%

2.3%

14.1%

Economically Active Working

Economically Active Unemployed

Economically Inactive


4.EDUCATION4.1.LiteracyRateof IndianResidentsAged15YearsandOver

2000 201095.1 % 98.1 %


4.2.ResidentIndiansAged5YearsandOverbyLanguageMostFrequentlySpokenatHome

2000 (%) 2010 (%)English 35.6 41.6

Tamil 42.9 36.7

Malay 11.6 7.9

Mandarin 0.1 0.1

Others 9.7 13.6


4.3.HighestQualificationAttainedbyIndianResidentNon-StudentsAged15YearsandOver

2000 2010

Indians (%)

National Average (%)

Indians (%)

National Average (%)

University 16.5 11.7 35 22.8

DiplomaandProfessionalQualification 8.0 11.2 14.1 14.8

Post-Secondary(Non-Tertiary) 10.8 10.0 11.2 11.1

Secondary 26.4 24.6 17.2 18.9

LowerSecondary 11.9 10.9 8.5 10.2

Primary 12.6 12.1 5.7 7.0

NoQualification 13.9 19.6 8.3 15.3



4.4.AdmissionintoPost-SecondaryInstitutions

2000 2009

Percentageof P1IndianCohortAdmittedtoPost-SecondaryInstitutions(Pre-U,Polytechnics&ITE)

71.4 % 89.5 %

Source : Press Release, 01 October 2001, Ministry of Education PressRelease,20December2010,Ministryof Education


2000

2010

nNo Educatio

Primary

Lower Secondary

Secondary

Post-Secondary (Non-Tertiary)

Diploma& ProfessionalQualification

University

Males Females

35.6% 34.4%

17%10.9%

13.1%

9.1%

16.5%

18%

7.9%

9.1%

4.6%

6.8%

5.4%11.6%

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

Males Females

17.9 14.9

9.76.1

11.3

10.2

27.1

25.8

12.4

11.4

11.3

13.9

10.317.7


Source:Censusof Population2000,StatisticalRelease2(SingaporeDepartmentof Statistics) PressRelease,20December2010,Ministryof Education

4.5. Field of Study for Indian Polytechnic or University Graduates aged 15 years and over (as of census years 2000 and 2010)

2000 2010

Polytechnic University Polytechnic UniversityEducation N.A 828 653 2,269

Fine & Applied Arts 50 549 292 745

Humanities&SocialSciences

N.A 4,416 296 10,408

Mass Communications & Information Science

125 397 374 1,654

Business&Administration

935 5,920 2,278 21,537

Natural, Physical, Chemical & Mathematic Sciences

57 2,817 301 9,003

HealthSciences 212 1,213 1,503 3,519

InformationTechnology 204 1,412 1,589 11,478

Architecture&Building 275 334 293 531

Engineering Sciences 2,594 6,513 9,567 18,538

Engineering, Manufacturing & RelatedTrades

184 N.A 280 N.A

Services 114 N.A 676 N.A

Law N.A 1,208 N.A 2,128

Others 336 1,380 260 1,880


4.6. Performance of Indian Students at National Exams

2000 2009

PSLE % %

PSLE Indian Pupils Eligible for Secondary School 91.6 95

PSLEIndianPupilsWhoScoredA*-CinEnglish 99.4 98

PSLEIndianPupilsWhoScoredA*-CinMaths 72.3 76.3

PSLEIndianPupilsWhoScoredA*-CinScience 87.7 86.6

PSLEIndianPupilsWhoScoredA*-CinMotherTongue 96.4 97.1

2000 2009

GCE ‘O’ LEVEL % %GCE‘O’LevelIndianPupilswithAtLeast5O-Levelpasses 66.2 73

GCE ‘O’ Level Indian Pupils who Passed English 83.7 91.1

GCE ‘O’ Level Indian Pupils Who Passed Maths 73.3 77.7

GCE ‘O’ Level Indian Pupils Who Passed Mother Tongue 89.2 96.7

2000 2009

GCE ‘A’ LEVEL % %GCE ‘A’ Level Indian Students with At Least 3 ‘A’/‘H2’ Passesand Pass in General Paper / Knowledge Inquiry

N.A. 85.4

GCE ‘A’ Level Indian Pupils Who Passed General Paper / Knowledge Inquiry

92.1 94.3

GCE ‘A’ Level Indian Students Who Passed Mother Tongue 92.6 90.6

Source : Press Release, 01 October 2001, Ministry of Education PressRelease,20December2010,Ministryof Education


5.MARRIAGESANDDIVORCES

2009 National Indians

Numberof Remarriages 5,284 229

Numberof MinorMarriagesof Brides(under20years)

336 14

Numberof MinorMarriagesof Grooms(under20years)

56 5

MedianAgeof Brides 28.1 27.2

Median Age of Grooms 31 30.3

Numberof Divorces 5,402 361

Mean Duration of Marriage of Couples Divorced (Years)

10.5 10.6

Source:StatisticsonMarriage&Divorces,2009(SingaporeDepartmentof Statistics)

5.2.IndianDivorcesbyAgeGroup

2

32

81

107

75 74 74

12

57

84 89

62

47

34

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20

40

60

80

100

120

Under 25

25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50 and Over

Males

Females

Source:StatisticsonMarriage&Divorces,2009(SingaporeDepartmentof Statistics)

5.1.MarriagesandDivorces


6.SOCIALINDICATORS6.1.IndianDrugAbusers

2005 2010Indian Drug Abusers 61 (7.7 %) 264 (14.6 %)

TotalNumberof DrugAbusers 793 1, 805

6.2. Indian Inhalant Abusers

2009 2010Indian Drug Abusers 92 (15.3%) 71 (14.2%)

TotalNumberof DrugAbusers 600 499Source:DrugSituationReport,2010(CentralNarcoticsBureau)

6.3.SingleParent-RegisteredBirthsper10,000FemaleResidents

2000 2005NationalAverage 2.7 2.5

Indian Average 4.5 3.7

Source:CommunityStatistics,Ministryof CommunityDevelopment,YouthandSports

6.4.SchoolDropout

Primary School 2000 2005National 127 71

Indians 16 8

Secondary School 2000 2005National 1152 860

Indians 107 75Source:CommunityStatistics,Ministryof CommunityDevelopment,YouthandSports

Source:DrugSituationReport,2005(CentralNarcoticsBureau) DrugSituationReport,2010(CentralNarcoticsBureau)

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