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Live-Births (Single & Twins Births) by Period of Gestation, Birth Weight and Child Gender

Data from Jan 2020 to Jan 2022Updated 6 months ago

ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority)

Twins Births - All gender, all birth weight

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LiveBirthsSingleTwinsBirthsbyPeriodofGestationBirthWeightandChildGender.csv (679 rows, 25.3 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Period Of Gestation Text	Birth Weight Text	Gender Text	Type Of Birth Text	Birth Count Numeric
(Null)0.0% 202032.1% 202134.8% 202233.1%	(Null)0.0% 358.1% 369.9% 3710.2% 389.3%	(Null)0.0% 1500 - 199917.1% 2000 - 249916.8% 1000 - 149915.6% 2500 - 299915.0%	(Null)0.0% F49.9% M49.9% U0.1%	(Null)0.0% Single birth68.0% Twins births32.0%	(Null)0.0%
2020	Under 28	0 - 999	F	Single birth	35
2020	Under 28	0 - 999	M	Single birth	34
2020	Under 28	0 - 999	U	Single birth	1
2020	Under 28	1000 - 1499	M	Single birth	10
2020	Under 28	1000 - 1499	F	Single birth	3
2020	Under 28	1500 - 1999	F	Single birth	2
2020	Under 28	0 - 999	F	Twins births	9
2020	Under 28	0 - 999	M	Twins births	5
2020	Under 28	1000 - 1499	F	Twins births	1
2020	Under 28	1000 - 1499	M	Twins births	3

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Period Of Gestation	period_of_gestation	Text	-	unit in weeks
Birth Weight	birth_weight	Text	-	unit in grams
Gender	gender	Text	-	-
Type Of Birth	type_of_birth	Text	-	Single or Twins
Birth Count	birth_count	Numeric	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_88039c470472a9a79da2fc662c33c48c"
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.

Immigration and Checkpoints Authority. (2016). Live-Births (Single & Twins Births) by Period of Gestation, Birth Weight and Child Gender (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 22, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_88039c470472a9a79da2fc662c33c48c/view

About this dataset

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ICA_Data_Management@ica.gov.sg

Created on

14 Apr 2016

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

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ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority)

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