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Collection: Age-Standardised Mortality Rate for Ischaemic Heart Disease, Stroke and Cancer

Dataset: Age-Standardised Mortality Rate for Cancer

Health

Age-Standardised Mortality Rate for Cancer

Data from Jan 1990 to Dec 2019

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:42 SGT

MOH (Ministry of Health)

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_75673c9d6c4efdcd08530b55e6003976"
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.

Ministry of Health. (2017). Age-Standardised Mortality Rate for Cancer (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 2, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_75673c9d6c4efdcd08530b55e6003976/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

16 May 2017

Licence

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

Agency

MOH (Ministry of Health)

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Health

Age-Standardised Mortality Rate for Cancer

Data from Jan 1990 to Dec 2019

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:42 SGT

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Age-Standardised Mortality Rate for Cancer

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Data explorer

AgeStandardisedMortalityRateforCancer.csv (30 rows, 334 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Cancer Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
1990	244.5
1991	241
1992	240.8
1993	231.8
1994	240.7
1995	230.8
1996	227.2
1997	223
1998	218.5
1999	207.3

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Cancer	cancer	Numeric	Deaths per 100,000 Population	1. Per 100,000 population among Singapore residents aged 35 - 74 years old only 2. Age-standardisation of mortality was calculated by the direct method, using the 2010 Census Singapore resident population as the standard (reference) population 3. Causes of death classifications : Cancer ICD-9 code : 140-208 ICD-10 code (from year 2012) : C00-C97

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