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Health

Number of Policyholders for ElderShield, Annual

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Number of ElderShield Policyholders, Number of ElderShield Policyholders with Supplements

Data from Jan 2006 to Dec 2021

Last updated 6 Jun 2024

Policyholders, Policyholders with supplements by Year

Data explorer

NumberofPolicyholdersforElderShieldAnnual.csv (16 rows, 357 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Policyholders
Numeric
Policyholders with Supplements
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)6.3%
2006746000na
200778600025000
200882900076000
2009873000127000
2010922000189000
2011977000234000
20121033000265000
20131091000320000
20141144000357000
20151194000398000
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_6df6086af759a419ea8140f4b057eb0d"
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.

Ministry of Health. (2016). Number of Policyholders for ElderShield, Annual (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_6df6086af759a419ea8140f4b057eb0d/view

About this dataset

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Created on

07 Jul 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOH (Ministry of Health)