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Health

National Behavioural Surveillance Survey

Data from Jan 2007 to Dec 2012

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:06 SGT

HPB (Health Promotion Board)

Proportion by Year

Data explorer

NationalBehaviouralSurveillanceSurvey.csv (8 rows, 473 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Knowledge on HIV/AIDS Prevention Text	Proportion Numeric (Percentage)
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2007	Abstaining from casual sex (A)	0.752
2007	Being faithful to uninfected sexual partner (B)	0.816
2007	Using a condom correctly every time having sex ( C )	0.544
2007	At least 2 out of 3 ways of ABC prevention	0.804
2012	Abstaining from casual sex (A)	0.651
2012	Being faithful to uninfected sexual partner (B)	0.709
2012	Using a condom correctly every time having sex ( C )	0.711
2012	At least 2 out of 3 ways of ABC prevention	0.727

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Knowledge on HIV/AIDS Prevention	hiv_aids_knowledge	Text	-	-
Proportion	proportion	Numeric (Percentage)	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_eb4be8c8e136b255a7b6a4e7d5e73964"
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). National Behavioural Surveillance Survey (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 25, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_eb4be8c8e136b255a7b6a4e7d5e73964/view

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Created on

13 Jun 2016

Licence

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

Agency

HPB (Health Promotion Board)