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Health

Number of Opticians and Optometrists

Data from Jan 2008 to Dec 2022Updated 4 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
Datetime (Year) "YYYY"
Sector
Text (General)
Count
Numeric (General)
(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
YearyearDatetime (Year) "YYYY"--
SectorsectorText (General)--
CountcountNumeric (General)Opticians/Optometrists-

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
          
datasetId = "d_311d47ba147e37d45dc9c89e05ca726c"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + datasetId 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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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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