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Live-Births By Occupation Of Mother And Birth Order

Data from Jan 2020 to Dec 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:27 SGT

ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority)

Live-Births By Occupation Of Mother - All Birth Order

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LiveBirthsByOccupationOfMotherAndBirthOrder.csv (1.8K rows, 79.5 KB)

Month Month (YYYY-MM)	Mother Occupation Text	Order Text	Birth Count Numeric
(Null)0.0% 2021-063.1% 2022-063.1% 2022-043.0% 2022-093.0%	(Null)0.0% PERSONS NOT ECONOMICALLY ACTIVE17.5% WKRS NOT CLASSIFIABLE BY OCCUPATION13.4% SERVICE WKRS, SHOP, MARKET SALES WKRS12.5% PROFESSIONALS12.3%	(Null)0.0% 1st18.5% 2nd17.9% 3rd16.4% 4th14.9%	(Null)0.0% 120.9% 29.7% 34.9% 43.3%
2020-01	AGRICULTURAL & FISHERY WORKERS	1st	1
2020-01	CLEANERS, LABOURERS & REL WORKERS	1st	2
2020-01	CLEANERS, LABOURERS & REL WORKERS	2nd	1
2020-01	CLERICAL WORKERS	1st	73
2020-01	CLERICAL WORKERS	2nd	42
2020-01	CLERICAL WORKERS	3rd	22
2020-01	CLERICAL WORKERS	4th	9
2020-01	CLERICAL WORKERS	5th	2
2020-01	LEGISLATORS, SNR OFFICIALS & MGRS	1st	73
2020-01	LEGISLATORS, SNR OFFICIALS & MGRS	2nd	65

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Month	month	Month (YYYY-MM)	-	-
Mother Occupation	mother_occupation	Text	-	-
Order	order	Text	-	-
Birth Count	birth_count	Numeric	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_cb058a2f7ee7aa5c6b1f0d8c7ef45f21"
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 Occupation Of Mother And Birth Order (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 8, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_cb058a2f7ee7aa5c6b1f0d8c7ef45f21/view

About this dataset

Contact

ICA_Data_Management@ica.gov.sg

Created on

22 Mar 2016

Licence

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

Agency

ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority)