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Inmate to Prison Staff Ratio

Inmate to Prison Staff Ratio

Updated 11 months ago

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

Inmate to Institutional Staff Ratio. 'Institutional Staff' refers to full time (or equivalent) staff working in prisons/correctional institutions, including all categories or staff in prisons/correctional institutions, but excluding those working in headquarters and training colleges. Data is retrieved at end June yearly.

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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the metadata for this collection. 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
          
collection_id = 610          
url = "https://api-production.data.gov.sg/v2/public/api/collections/{}/metadata".format(collection_id)
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())