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Common health problems of students examined - Defective Vision, Annual

HPB (Health Promotion Board)

Data from Jan 2009 to Dec 2020

Last updated 6 Jun 2024

Defective vision rate by Year

Data explorer

CommonhealthproblemsofstudentsexaminedDefectiveVisionAnnual.csv (24 rows, 415 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Gender
Text
Defective vision rate
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2009Male5368
2009Female5775
2010Male5349
2010Female5762
2011Male5339
2011Female5747
2012Male5297
2012Female5688
2013Male5271
2013Female5663
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_d05099460f780ed9c7b7824540872ea2"
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.

Health Promotion Board. (2016). Common health problems of students examined - Defective Vision, Annual (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_d05099460f780ed9c7b7824540872ea2/view

About this dataset

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Created on

30 May 2016

Licence

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

Agency

HPB (Health Promotion Board)