Live-Births By Educational Qualification, Ethnic Group of Mother and Birth Order

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LiveBirthsByEducationalQualificationEthnicGroupofMotherandBirthOrder.csv (3.5K rows, 140 KB)

Month Month (YYYY-MM)	Mother Race Text	Mother Education Text	Birth Order Text	Birth Count Numeric
(Null)0.0% 2022-063.0% 2022-093.0% 2022-103.0% 2023-103.0%	(Null)0.0% MALAYS33.6% CHINESE25.1% OTHERS21.7% INDIANS19.5%	(Null)0.0% UNIVERSITY DEGREE20.8% PSLE18.6% "N" LEVEL/"O" LEVEL15.8% NO QUALIFICATION14.8%	(Null)0.0% 1st19.6% 2nd19.5% 3rd18.9% 4th16.3%	(Null)0.0% 123.1% 211.9% 37.4% 45.8%
2022-01	CHINESE	A LEVEL/DIPLOMA	1st	175
2022-01	CHINESE	A LEVEL/DIPLOMA	2nd	121
2022-01	CHINESE	A LEVEL/DIPLOMA	3rd	42
2022-01	CHINESE	A LEVEL/DIPLOMA	4th	6
2022-01	CHINESE	A LEVEL/DIPLOMA	5th	2
2022-01	CHINESE	A LEVEL/DIPLOMA	7th	1
2022-01	CHINESE	N LEVEL/"O" LEVEL	1st	55
2022-01	CHINESE	N LEVEL/"O" LEVEL	2nd	41
2022-01	CHINESE	N LEVEL/"O" LEVEL	3rd	17
2022-01	CHINESE	N LEVEL/"O" LEVEL	4th	8

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Month	month	Month (YYYY-MM)	-	-
Mother Race	mother_race	Text	-	-
Mother Education	mother_education	Text	-	-
Birth Order	birth_order	Text	-	-
Birth Count	birth_count	Numeric	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_36149d0682172bc5e7c93ad44b8ab418"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Immigration and Checkpoints Authority. (2016). Live-Births By Educational Qualification, Ethnic Group of Mother and Birth Order (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_36149d0682172bc5e7c93ad44b8ab418/view

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