Dental Index: Dental Health Status of the School Children at 12 and 15 Years Old

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DentalIndexDentalHealthStatusoftheSchoolChildrenat12and15YearsOld.csv (42 rows, 986 B)

Year Text	Age Text	Dental Index Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% 12 YEARS OLD50.0% 15 YEARS OLD50.0%	(Null)0.0%
2003	12 YEARS OLD	0.74
2003	15 YEARS OLD	1.14
2004	12 YEARS OLD	0.73
2004	15 YEARS OLD	1.07
2005	12 YEARS OLD	0.77
2005	15 YEARS OLD	1.19
2006	12 YEARS OLD	0.74
2006	15 YEARS OLD	1.14
2007	12 YEARS OLD	0.72
2007	15 YEARS OLD	1.07

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Text	-	-
Age	age	Text	-	-
Dental Index	dental_index	Text	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_10ada25ed89da6aee2e6e2622c764e2f"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Health Promotion Board. (2015). Dental Index: Dental Health Status of the School Children at 12 and 15 Years Old (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_10ada25ed89da6aee2e6e2622c764e2f/view

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DentalIndexDentalHealthStatusoftheSchoolChildrenat12and15YearsOld.csv (42 rows, 986 B)

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