Source: Singstat, https://www.singstat.gov.sg/publications/reference/cop2020/cop2020-sr1/census20_stat_release1, Under Language Literate in

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Why the Malay unemployment so low bru 💀💀

the unemployment rate in the US is like 4%. according to the statistics, they have a 4-5% unemployment rate. not that weird.

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But to be fair the Malays have the lowest inside labour force sooo 💀💀💀

I like the breakdown as I think the tradional unemployment rate doesn't factor large components out [<outside the labour force]. But I'm,d also still like to see the "tradional unemployment rate" alongside these metrics.

They probably have a higher birth rate.

Nahhh bruv India most has the highest birth rate with the amount of children they can legally create without being bound by laws in other countries.

Malays have almost 2x the birth rate of Indians in Singapore.

So "Other Languages" are more employable than English and Mandarin?

1)are the numbers reflective of total population? eg 66% of eng could be 500 ppl but 63% of chinese could be 200 ppl 2)when you say not actively seeking work do you mean stay-at-home adults such as housewives or retired? 3)who were the ones who did the census? govt or independent organisations? cos idr trust the other races in sg, they could have rigged the numbers to flex on us esp those ppl who dl malays

I don’t think this graphic tells you much about employability.

Why are the colours so similar?

1)obviously reflective of the number who speak the language, not total national population as the numbers add up to 100% (or near it)

2)this statistic usually means anyone not working or looking for work. Sometimes includes students, usually includes housewives, retired, and those too disabled to work.

The most relevant number is the unemployment rate, which we don't get explicitly.

I get that you can work it out and it doesn't change much, but it should be immediately clear at first glance.

the two points above are right! for 3), the census was done by the Singaporean government!

Is this supposed to be "Chinese (Including Dialects)" instead of "Mandarin (including dialects)"?

Mandarin is a dialect, I guess there are sub-dialects of Mandarin but afaik they'd be mutually intelligible.

Well I'm guessing those are probably foreign specialists for companies that do business all over the world. How many native Singaporeans speak fluent Italian?

This data isn’t particularly beautiful in its presentation, or useful.

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This is not a great visualization. Try a spider plot and normalize values to a standard.

The nation of other at it again!!! They seem to top most graphs these days.

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This must have been made by someone completely oblivious to the concept of correlation vs causation or multiple regression analysis.

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Agreed. All it tells me is that Malay speakers are more likely than English speakers to be stay-at-home moms.

Phew! So it's not just me.

I stared at these charts for a while, but I can't really make out what it's supposed to tell me.

is the answer "Other Languages" since it has largest employed population?

US is 3.5%

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This would be more useful if it showed English only or mandarin only (and etc). Many people speak multiple languages so knowing how employable one language is would have to control for just that one language.

Or that they're old or young.

I think the "answer" we take away here is that Singaporeans are multilingual, and the employment stuff is a red herring.

"Mandarin including other dialects" just say Chinese.

...I feel as though this chart is telling me that Hanni Gong is one of these unemployed workers.

I think it's more likely that anyone who lives in Singapore and speaks a language other than the 4 listed here, then they will certainly ALSO speak at least one of these 4 languages.

More traditional gender roles than other cultures (i.e. more housewives/SAHMs), also close vicinity to Malaysia so might have people commuting to Malaysia to work (so wouldn't count among the SG labour force).

Meaning they are locals while English only speakers come to Singapore to work.

If your first language isn't English/Mandarin/Malay/something Indian, why are you living in Singapore? Probably because you were invited there to do a specific job.

This makes not much sense.

English and Secondary Language proficiency usually correlates with overall wealth and education level. Therefore, this is just a correlation but likely no causation.

Not to mention the fact most people there are bilingual.

What are the Indian languages considered here?

So Mandarin has a lower rate of unemployment, but English has a higher percentage of employed people.

You need to denote multi language speakers; as most non English speakers are multilingual

‘There is no significant difference in employability between these languages’

Thank you for such useful information…

Should be ordered by some metric and should tell you the unemployment percent explicitly.

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Can you link your source?

The data might be more convenient if you indicated the percentage for the unemployed as well. The title is misleading as it implies that employability is directly related to one's spoken language. Being currently employed is different from one's employability because one could be currently employed, but could have also failed multiple job applications. Such a scenario would demonstrate how one can be employed but also does not have high employability.

So if someone speaks three languages, does he show up in all three? I strongly doubt that only 5% of English Speakers (and so on) are employed.