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Number of Opticians and Optometrists

Data from Jan 2008 to Dec 2022Updated 7 months ago

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Number of Opticians and Optometrists (Public, Private, Not in Active Practice). Optometrists and Opticians were officially registered with the enactment of Optometrists and Opticians Act in 2008.

Count by Year

Data explorer

NumberofOpticiansandOptometrists.csv (45 rows, 1.2 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Sector
Text
Count
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2008Public Sector81
2008Private Sector2084
2008Not in Active Practice121
2009Public Sector86
2009Private Sector2170
2009Not in Active Practice68
2010Public Sector113
2010Private Sector2237
2010Not in Active Practice69
2011Public Sector133

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
SectorsectorText--
CountcountNumericOpticians/Optometrists-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_311d47ba147e37d45dc9c89e05ca726c"
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 Health. (2016). Number of Opticians and Optometrists (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved January 15, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_311d47ba147e37d45dc9c89e05ca726c/view

About this dataset

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Created on

10 Jul 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOH (Ministry of Health)

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