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Remand Population by Offence Group

Data from Jan 2007 to Dec 2022Updated 6 months ago

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

Remand Population as at 31 December of each year breakdown by offence group.

Remand Population by Offence Group

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RemandPopulationbyOffenceGroup.csv (160 rows, 4.4 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Population By Main Offence Group Text	Number Of Population Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)10.0%
2007	Crimes Against Person	57
2007	Property Crimes	122
2007	Commercial Crimes	22
2007	Drug Offences	164
2007	Immigration Offences	96
2007	Crimes Against Public Order	18
2007	Customs Offences	na
2007	Crimes Under Women's Charter	6
2007	Traffic Offences	1
2007	Other Offences	38

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Population By Main Offence Group	population_by_main_offence_group	Text	-	-
Number Of Population	number_of_population	Numeric	Number of Inmates	-

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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_18077ea3d5e77ee03558d4f5b3b6683f"
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.

Singapore Prison Service. (2016). Remand Population by Offence Group (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 22, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_18077ea3d5e77ee03558d4f5b3b6683f/view

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Created on

29 Mar 2016

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

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SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

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