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Age-standardised incidence rate of the top three cancers by gender and 5-year period

Data from Jan 1976 to Dec 2015Updated 4 months ago

HPB (Health Promotion Board)

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Agestandardisedincidencerateofthetopthreecancersbygenderand5yearperiod.csv (48 rows, 1.4 KB)

Period starting Datetime (Year) "YYYY"	Period ending Datetime (Year) "YYYY"	Site Text (General)	Gender Text (General)	ASIR Numeric (General)
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
1976	1980	colorectal	male	27.3
1976	1980	colorectal	female	23.4
1976	1980	lung	male	62.6
1976	1980	lung	female	19.6
1976	1980	prostate	male	5.9
1976	1980	breast	female	24.6
1981	1985	colorectal	male	28.2
1981	1985	colorectal	female	25.8
1981	1985	lung	male	61.9
1981	1985	lung	female	20.7

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Period starting	period_starting	Datetime (Year) "YYYY"	-	-
Period ending	period_ending	Datetime (Year) "YYYY"	-	-
Site	site	Text (General)	-	-
Gender	gender	Text (General)	-	-
ASIR	asir	Numeric (General)	per 100000 Singapore residents	Age standardized incidence rate

Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
datasetId = "d_c8f6e2c1ac21eb0d87c23cd1b4e02715"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + datasetId 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Created on

23 Aug 2018

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

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HPB (Health Promotion Board)

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