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Health

Number of Opticians and Optometrists

Data from Jan 2008 to Dec 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:29 SGT

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%
2008	Public Sector	81
2008	Private Sector	2084
2008	Not in Active Practice	121
2009	Public Sector	86
2009	Private Sector	2170
2009	Not in Active Practice	68
2010	Public Sector	113
2010	Private Sector	2237
2010	Not in Active Practice	69
2011	Public Sector	133

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sector	sector	Text	-	-
Count	count	Numeric	Opticians/Optometrists	-

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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_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 July 13, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_311d47ba147e37d45dc9c89e05ca726c/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

10 Jul 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOH (Ministry of Health)