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Social

Number of cases from 2011 to 2019

Data from Jan 2011 to Dec 2019

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:27 SGT

MSF (Ministry of Social and Family Development)

Number of cases registered at the Office for the Maintenance of Parents from 2011 to 2019

Data explorer

Numberofcasesfrom2011to2019.csv (12 rows, 138 B)

Number of cases Text	Na Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
year	number_of_cases
2011	286
2012	303
2013	257
2014	213
2015	221
2016	216
2017	176
2018	146
2019	143

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Number of cases	number_of_cases	Text	-	-
Na	na	Text	-	-

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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_2415688be72280c25e56b2eaa0542d94"
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 Social and Family Development. (2020). Number of cases from 2011 to 2019 (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 11, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_2415688be72280c25e56b2eaa0542d94/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

04 May 2020

Licence

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

Agency

MSF (Ministry of Social and Family Development)