Live-Births By Occupation Of Mother And Birth Order

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LiveBirthsByOccupationOfMotherAndBirthOrder.csv (1.9K rows, 83.1 KB)

Month Month (YYYY-MM)	Mother Occupation Text	Order Text	Birth Count Numeric
(Null)0.0% 2022-063.0% 2022-043.0% 2022-092.9% 2022-082.9%	(Null)0.0% PERSONS NOT ECONOMICALLY ACTIVE17.1% PROFESSIONALS13.1% SERVICE WKRS, SHOP, MARKET SALES WKRS12.9% WKRS NOT CLASSIFIABLE BY OCCUPATION11.9%	(Null)0.0% 1st19.1% 2nd18.6% 3rd16.8% 4th14.8%	(Null)0.0% 119.8% 210.3% 36.0% 44.5%
2021-12	CLEANERS, LABOURERS & REL WORKERS	1st	1
2021-12	CLEANERS, LABOURERS & REL WORKERS	3rd	1
2021-12	CLERICAL WORKERS	1st	69
2021-12	CLERICAL WORKERS	2nd	58
2021-12	CLERICAL WORKERS	3rd	16
2021-12	CLERICAL WORKERS	4th	13
2021-12	CLERICAL WORKERS	5th	7
2021-12	CLERICAL WORKERS	6th	1
2021-12	LEGISLATORS, SNR OFFICIALS & MGRS	1st	60
2021-12	LEGISLATORS, SNR OFFICIALS & MGRS	2nd	59

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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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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())

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Immigration and Checkpoints Authority. (2016). Live-Births By Occupation Of Mother And Birth Order (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_cb058a2f7ee7aa5c6b1f0d8c7ef45f21/view

Live-Births By Occupation Of Mother - All Birth Order

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LiveBirthsByOccupationOfMotherAndBirthOrder.csv (1.9K rows, 83.1 KB)

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