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Health

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%
2009	Primary 1 and equivalent age groups	Male	1212
2009	Primary 1 and equivalent age groups	Female	1080
2009	Primary 5 and equivalent age groups	Male	1787
2009	Primary 5 and equivalent age groups	Female	1210
2010	Primary 1 and equivalent age groups	Male	1218
2010	Primary 1 and equivalent age groups	Female	1059
2010	Primary 5 and equivalent age groups	Male	1748
2010	Primary 5 and equivalent age groups	Female	1197
2011	Primary 1 and equivalent age groups	Male	1269
2011	Primary 1 and equivalent age groups	Female	1126

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Age Group	age_group	Text	-	-
Gender	gender	Text	-	-
Prevalence of overweight	per_10000_examined	Numeric	Per 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 18, 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)