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Live-Births by Ethnic Group of Mother and Attendant at Birth

ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority)

Live-Births by Ethnic Group of Mother and Attendant at Birth

Data from Jan 2022 to Dec 2024

Last updated 5 Sep 2025

Ethnic Group of Mother - All Races

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LiveBirthsbyEthnicGroupofMotherandAttendantatBirth.csv (615 rows, 36 KB)

Month
Month (YYYY-MM)
Mother Race
Text
Birth Attendant
Text
Birth Count
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
2022-043.3%
2022-013.1%
2023-113.1%
2022-102.9%
(Null)0.0%
CHINESE28.1%
MALAYS26.3%
OTHERS23.4%
INDIANS22.1%
(Null)0.0%
Doctor in Public Sector Hospitals23.4%
Doctor in Private Sector Hospitals23.4%
Midwife or Nurse in Public Sector Hospitals23.4%
Delivery without aid of doctor, midwife or nurse20.2%
(Null)0.0%
2022-01MALAYSAmbulance Officer / Paramedic1
2022-01CHINESEDelivery without aid of doctor, midwife or nurse3
2022-01INDIANSDelivery without aid of doctor, midwife or nurse1
2022-01MALAYSDelivery without aid of doctor, midwife or nurse3
2022-01OTHERSDelivery without aid of doctor, midwife or nurse1
2022-01CHINESEDoctor in Private Sector Hospitals1164
2022-01INDIANSDoctor in Private Sector Hospitals113
2022-01MALAYSDoctor in Private Sector Hospitals97
2022-01OTHERSDoctor in Private Sector Hospitals202
2022-01CHINESEDoctor in Public Sector Hospitals555
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_decb56d878cb26e964509b26fc90b148"
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 Ethnic Group of Mother and Attendant at Birth (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_decb56d878cb26e964509b26fc90b148/view

About this dataset

Contact

ICA_Data_Management@ica.gov.sg

Created on

10 Mar 2016

Licence

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

Agency

ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority)