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Population of Inmates in Drug Rehabilitation Centre (DRC) by Age Group (2006-2020)

Data from Jan 2006 to Dec 2020

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:27 SGT

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

Population of inmates undergoing treatment and rehabilitation in Drug Rehabilitation Centre (DRC) as at 31st December of each year breakdown by age group.

Population of inmates in Drug Rehabilitation Centre (DRC) by Age Group (2006-2020)

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PopulationofInmatesinDrugRehabilitationCentreDRCbyAgeGroup20062020.csv (90 rows, 1.4 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Population By Age Group Text	Number Of Population Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2006	Below 21	30
2006	21-30	160
2006	31-40	127
2006	41-50	91
2006	51-60	23
2006	60 Above	1
2007	Below 21	28
2007	21-30	226
2007	31-40	162
2007	41-50	169

Column legend

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

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_25efee532ce20dec917270f99aca103b"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Singapore Prison Service. (2018). Population of Inmates in Drug Rehabilitation Centre (DRC) by Age Group (2006-2020) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 17, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_25efee532ce20dec917270f99aca103b/view

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Created on

17 Jul 2018

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

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SPS (Singapore Prison Service)