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Common health problems of students examined - Overweight, Annual

Data from Jan 2009 to Dec 2020

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:44 SGT

HPB (Health Promotion Board)

Prevalence of overweight by Year

Data explorer

CommonhealthproblemsofstudentsexaminedOverweightAnnual.csv (48 rows, 2.5 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Age Group
Text
Gender
Text
Prevalence of overweight
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2009Primary 1 and equivalent age groupsMale1212
2009Primary 1 and equivalent age groupsFemale1080
2009Primary 5 and equivalent age groupsMale1787
2009Primary 5 and equivalent age groupsFemale1210
2010Primary 1 and equivalent age groupsMale1218
2010Primary 1 and equivalent age groupsFemale1059
2010Primary 5 and equivalent age groupsMale1748
2010Primary 5 and equivalent age groupsFemale1197
2011Primary 1 and equivalent age groupsMale1269
2011Primary 1 and equivalent age groupsFemale1126

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
Age Groupage_groupText--
GendergenderText--
Prevalence of overweightper_10000_examinedNumericPer 10000 Examined-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_7c3c14c03c4737ffefed396c477cbb94"
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). Common health problems of students examined - Overweight, Annual (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 6, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_7c3c14c03c4737ffefed396c477cbb94/view

About this dataset

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Created on

30 May 2016

Licence

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

Agency

HPB (Health Promotion Board)