Live-Births by Ethnic group, Age group of Mother and Child Gender

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LiveBirthsbyEthnicgroupAgegroupofMotherandChildGender.csv (1.8K rows, 55.4 KB)

Month Month (YYYY-MM)	Mother Age Text	Child Gender Text	Mother Race Text	Birth Count Numeric
(Null)0.0% 2024-113.0% 2023-053.0% 2023-062.9% 2024-032.9%	(Null)0.0% 30 - 3416.0% 40 - 4416.0% 25 - 2915.9% 35 - 3915.9%	(Null)0.0% F49.9% M49.9% U0.1%	(Null)0.0% CHINESE28.0% MALAYS25.4% OTHERS23.4% INDIANS23.1%	(Null)0.0% 19.6% 24.1% 33.9% 63.3%
2022-01	15 - 19	F	CHINESE	2
2022-01	15 - 19	F	MALAYS	10
2022-01	15 - 19	M	MALAYS	8
2022-01	20 - 24	F	CHINESE	21
2022-01	20 - 24	M	CHINESE	11
2022-01	20 - 24	F	INDIANS	7
2022-01	20 - 24	M	INDIANS	13
2022-01	20 - 24	F	MALAYS	28
2022-01	20 - 24	M	MALAYS	30
2022-01	20 - 24	F	OTHERS	3

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Month	month	Month (YYYY-MM)	-	-
Mother Age	mother_age	Text	-	-
Child Gender	child_gender	Text	-	-
Mother Race	mother_race	Text	-	-
Birth Count	birth_count	Numeric	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_83117ac6795d782fed5f752fff8dc8b8"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Immigration and Checkpoints Authority. (2016). Live-Births by Ethnic group, Age group of Mother and Child Gender (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_83117ac6795d782fed5f752fff8dc8b8/view

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LiveBirthsbyEthnicgroupAgegroupofMotherandChildGender.csv (1.8K rows, 55.4 KB)

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