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Age-Standardised Mortality Rate for Ischaemic Heart Disease, Stroke and Cancer

Age-Standardised Mortality Rate for Cancer

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Age-Standardised Mortality Rate for Cancer

Data from Jan 1990 to Dec 2019Updated 11 months ago

MOH (Ministry of Health)

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AgeStandardisedMortalityRateforCancer.csv (30 rows, 334 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Cancer Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
1990	244.5
1991	241
1992	240.8
1993	231.8
1994	240.7
1995	230.8
1996	227.2
1997	223
1998	218.5
1999	207.3

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Cancer	cancer	Numeric	Deaths per 100,000 Population	1. Per 100,000 population among Singapore residents aged 35 - 74 years old only 2. Age-standardisation of mortality was calculated by the direct method, using the 2010 Census Singapore resident population as the standard (reference) population 3. Causes of death classifications : Cancer ICD-9 code : 140-208 ICD-10 code (from year 2012) : C00-C97

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_75673c9d6c4efdcd08530b55e6003976"
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. (2017). Age-Standardised Mortality Rate for Cancer (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 25, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_75673c9d6c4efdcd08530b55e6003976/view

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Created on

16 May 2017

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

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MOH (Ministry of Health)