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Assault Rate

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

Assault Rate per 10,000 inmates

Data from 2007 to 2025

Last updated 3 months ago (25 May 2026)

Assault Rate

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AssaultRate.csv (19 rows, 240 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Assault Rate Per 10000 inmates Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2007	22.3
2008	35.2
2009	22
2010	29.4
2011	33.4
2012	37.2
2013	28.5
2014	36.6
2015	30
2016	24.4

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Assault Rate Per 10000 inmates	assault_rate_per_10000_inmates	Numeric	Cases per 10000 inmates	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_2a5debe2674db2707cec7bfd022d770c"
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. (2018). Assault Rate (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_2a5debe2674db2707cec7bfd022d770c/view

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Created on

17 Jul 2018

Licence

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

Agency

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)