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Deaths By Cause And Type of Certification

Data from Jan 2021 to Jan 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:29 SGT

ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority)

Deaths by Type of Certification

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DeathsByCauseAndTypeofCertification.csv (145 rows, 16.7 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Icd main category Text	Icd detail category Text	Certified By Text	Death count Numeric
(Null)0.0% 202149.0% 202251.0%	(Null)0.0% 1-026-Neplasms(C00-D48)29.0% 1-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A10-B99)14.5% 1-095-External causes of morbidity and mortality(V01-Y89)11.0% 1-064-Diseases of the circulatory system(I00-I99)9.7%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% Doctors87.6% Coroners12.4%	(Null)0.0%
2021	1-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A10-B99)	1-003-Diarrhoea and gastroenteritis of presumed infectious origin(A09)	Doctors	12
2021	1-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A10-B99)	1-004-Other intestinal infectious diseases(A01-A08)	Doctors	14
2021	1-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A10-B99)	1-005-Respiratory tuberculosis(A15-A16)	Doctors	9
2021	1-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A10-B99)	1-006-Other tuberculosis(A17-A19)	Doctors	2
2021	1-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A10-B99)	1-012-Septicaemia(A40-A41)	Doctors	59
2021	1-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A10-B99)	1-017-Other arthropod-borne viral fevers and viral haemorrhagic fevers(A90-A94,A96-A99)	Doctors	6
2021	1-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A10-B99)	1-019-Viral hepatitis(B15-B19)	Doctors	5
2021	1-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A10-B99)	1-020-Human immunodeficiency virus [HIV] disease(B20-B24)	Doctors	6
2021	1-001-Certain infection and parasitic diseases(A10-B99)	1-025-Remainder of certain infectious and parasitic diseases	Doctors	869
2021	1-026-Neplasms(C00-D48)	1-027-Malignant neoplasm of lip, oral cavity and pharynx(C00-C14)	Doctors	204

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Icd main category	icd_main_category	Text	-	-
Icd detail category	icd_detail_category	Text	-	-
Certified By	certified_by	Text	-	by doctors or coroners
Death count	death_count	Numeric	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_f9e1ec367036b43d97eec96cbcee7827"
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. (2015). Deaths By Cause And Type of Certification (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 4, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_f9e1ec367036b43d97eec96cbcee7827/view

About this dataset

Contact

ICA_Data_Management@ica.gov.sg

Created on

29 Oct 2015

Licence

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

Agency

ICA (Immigration and Checkpoints Authority)