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National Nutrition Survey - Carbohydrate Intake among Adult Singaporean Residents (Discontinued)

National Nutrition Survey - Carbohydrate Intake by Gender

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National Nutrition Survey - Carbohydrate Intake by Gender

Data from Jan 2004 to Dec 2010

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:40 SGT

HPB (Health Promotion Board)

Mean by Gender

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NationalNutritionSurveyCarbohydrateIntakebyGender.csv (6 rows, 523 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Gender Text	Mean Numeric	Standard error of mean Numeric	5th percentile Numeric	10th percentile Numeric	25th percentile Numeric	50th percentile Numeric	75th percentile Numeric	90th percentile Numeric	95th percentile Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2004	Overall	336.7	3.5	167.6	195.5	249.2	318.6	396	497	573.4
2004	Male	378.5	5.3	197.1	231.1	281.9	351.8	444.2	559	644.7
2004	Female	295.6	3.9	158.9	174.5	226.1	283.3	354.4	416.6	473.7
2010	Overall	337.4	3.9	183	207.2	261.9	323.6	395.7	481.4	543.2
2010	Male	376.6	5.4	213.5	246.8	293.8	363.2	441.4	523.2	575
2010	Female	298.2	4.2	165.2	188.2	233.3	287.1	346.6	416.9	466.1

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Gender	gender	Text	-	-
Mean	mean	Numeric	Gram	Mean of carbohydrate intake
Standard error of mean	standard_error_of_mean	Numeric	Gram	Standard error of carbohydrate intake
5th percentile	5th_percentile	Numeric	Gram	Percentile distribution of carbohydrate intake
10th percentile	10th_percentile	Numeric	Gram	Percentile distribution of carbohydrate intake
25th percentile	25th_percentile	Numeric	Gram	Percentile distribution of carbohydrate intake
50th percentile	50th_percentile	Numeric	Gram	Percentile distribution of carbohydrate intake
75th percentile	75th_percentile	Numeric	Gram	Percentile distribution of carbohydrate intake
90th percentile	90th_percentile	Numeric	Gram	Percentile distribution of carbohydrate intake

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_6a42359b27477f8f6609855d2fbe04db"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Health Promotion Board. (2016). National Nutrition Survey - Carbohydrate Intake by Gender (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 16, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_6a42359b27477f8f6609855d2fbe04db/view

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Created on

17 Jun 2016

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

HPB (Health Promotion Board)