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Employment in Arts and Cultural Sector

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Employment in Arts and Cultural Sector

Data from Jan 2013 to Dec 2019

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:25 SGT

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)

Data has been rounded to the nearest hundreds

Employment in Arts and Cultural Sector

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EmploymentinArtsandCulturalSector.csv (35 rows, 829 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Art Form
Text
Employment
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2013Film3800
2013Cultural Heritage1000
2013Literary Arts7000
2013Performing Arts6000
2013Visual Arts7300
2014Film4500
2014Cultural Heritage1300
2014Literary Arts7400
2014Performing Arts6700
2014Visual Arts8500

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Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
Art FormartformText--
EmploymentemploymentNumericNumber-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_1b3bb94dab437ad56d0a6cc26282a289"
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 Culture, Community and Youth. (2021). Employment in Arts and Cultural Sector (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 12, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_1b3bb94dab437ad56d0a6cc26282a289/view

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Created on

07 May 2021

Licence

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

Agency

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)