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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 12 months ago

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Age-Standardised Mortality Rate for Cancer

Age-Standardised Mortality Rate for Cancer

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AgeStandardisedMortalityRateforCancer.csv (30 rows, 334 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Cancer
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
1990244.5
1991241
1992240.8
1993231.8
1994240.7
1995230.8
1996227.2
1997223
1998218.5
1999207.3

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
CancercancerNumericDeaths per 100,000 Population1. 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

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

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 May 23, 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)