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Live-Births By Nationality of Father and Mother

Data from Jan 2020 to Jan 2022Updated 7 months ago

ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority)

By Mother Nationality

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LiveBirthsByNationalityofFatherandMother.csv (334 rows, 11.6 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Mother Nationality Text	Father Nationality Text	Birth Count Numeric
(Null)0.0% 202033.8% 202132.9% 202233.2%	(Null)0.0% OTHERS9.9% SINGAPOREAN9.9% PRC NATIONAL9.9% OTHER ASEAN COUNTRIES9.9%	(Null)0.0% OTHERS9.9% BRITISH9.9% AMERICAN9.9% SINGAPOREAN9.9%	(Null)0.0%
2020	AMERICAN	AMERICAN	122
2020	AUSTRALIAN	AMERICAN	6
2020	BRITISH	AMERICAN	3
2020	INDIAN,PAKISTANI,BANGLADESHI & SRI LANKAN	AMERICAN	5
2020	INDONESIAN	AMERICAN	4
2020	JAPANESE	AMERICAN	10
2020	MALAYSIAN	AMERICAN	6
2020	OTHER ASEAN COUNTRIES	AMERICAN	17
2020	OTHERS	AMERICAN	38
2020	PRC NATIONAL	AMERICAN	16

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Mother Nationality	mother_nationality	Text	-	-
Father Nationality	father_nationality	Text	-	-
Birth Count	birth_count	Numeric	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_a4738ec298639102f2e9cc17afd5af7c"
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 By Nationality of Father and Mother (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved January 15, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_a4738ec298639102f2e9cc17afd5af7c/view

About this dataset

Contact

ICA_Data_Management@ica.gov.sg

Created on

08 Apr 2016

Licence

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

Agency

ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority)

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