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Health

Number of Speech Therapists

Data from Jan 2014 to Dec 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:24 SGT

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Number of Speech Therapists (Public, Private, Not in Active Practice). Registration of Allied Health professionals (Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech Therapists) started in 2013.

Count by Year

Data explorer

NumberofSpeechTherapists.csv (27 rows, 720 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sector Text	Count Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2014	Public Sector	193
2014	Private Sector	207
2014	Not in Active Practice	0
2015	Public Sector	212
2015	Private Sector	244
2015	Not in Active Practice	18
2016	Public Sector	215
2016	Private Sector	269
2016	Not in Active Practice	40
2017	Public Sector	232

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sector	sector	Text	-	-
Count	count	Numeric	Speech Therapists	-

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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_1592c9f0a1dedec694dccf6120d9d537"
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. (2016). Number of Speech Therapists (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 12, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_1592c9f0a1dedec694dccf6120d9d537/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

10 Jul 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOH (Ministry of Health)