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Common health problems of students examined - Defective Vision, Annual

Data from Jan 2009 to Dec 2020

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:01 SGT

HPB (Health Promotion Board)

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%
2009	Male	5368
2009	Female	5775
2010	Male	5349
2010	Female	5762
2011	Male	5339
2011	Female	5747
2012	Male	5297
2012	Female	5688
2013	Male	5271
2013	Female	5663

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Gender	gender	Text	-	-
Defective vision rate	per_10000_examined	Numeric	Per 10000 examined	-

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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
          
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 April 16, 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)