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Collection: Preventive Health Screening Statistics

Dataset: Percentage of Primary 1 and Equivalent Age Groups Medically Screened

Health

Percentage of Primary 1 and Equivalent Age Groups Medically Screened

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Percentage of Primary 1 and equivalent age groups medically screened

Notes

  1. Data for years 2010 to 2016 is from Health Behaviour Surveillance Survey (HBSS) series, which has been discontinued, while data for 2019 was collected from the National Population Health Survey (NPHS) 2019, which is a new series of health survey.
  2. Data for years 2010 to 2016 are based on adults aged 25 to 69 years, while data for 2019 is based on adults aged 25 to 74 years.
  3. Significant decrease in no. of P1 students screened in 2020 and 2021 due to disruption of Primary School health screening.

Data from Jan 2006 to Dec 2022

Last updated 6 Jun 2024

Percentage of Primary 1 and Equivalent Age Groups Medically Screened

Data explorer

PercentageofPrimary1andEquivalentAgeGroupsMedicallyScreened.csv (17 rows, 149 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Percent
Numeric (Percentage)
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
200699
200799
200898
200998
201099
201198
201299
201399
201499
201599
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_92b1ebc1dde9d30463234aa9e03ec1a4"
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). Percentage of Primary 1 and Equivalent Age Groups Medically Screened (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_92b1ebc1dde9d30463234aa9e03ec1a4/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

18 Feb 2017

Licence

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

Agency

MOH (Ministry of Health)