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Collection: Tribunal for the Maintenance of Parents

Dataset: Age of New Applicants

Social

Age of New Applicants

MSF (Ministry of Social and Family Development)

Breakdown of New Applicants by Age

Data from Jan 2011 to Dec 2021

Last updated 6 Jun 2024

Data explorer

AgeofNewApplicants.csv (11 rows, 211 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Below 60 Numeric	60 - 80 Numeric	81 and over Numeric	Total Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2011	6	87	17	110
2012	6	65	13	84
2013	4	49	10	63
2014	0	41	14	55
2015	1	26	9	36
2016	7	52	11	70
2017	4	26	8	38
2018	2	24	2	28
2019	1	26	8	35
2020	1	17	5	23

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	Year which cases are filed
Below 60	below_60	Numeric	Number of applicants	Number of Applicants who are below 60 years old
60 - 80	60_-_80	Numeric	Number of applicants	Number of Applicants who are between 60 and 80 years old
81 and over	81_and_over	Numeric	Number of applicants	Number of Applicants who are 81 years old and older
Total	total	Numeric	Number of applicants	Total number across all categories

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_3dba1c8af6ab637e94b40ef3ea87590c"
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 Social and Family Development. (2022). Age of New Applicants (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_3dba1c8af6ab637e94b40ef3ea87590c/view

About this dataset

Contact

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Created on

27 Dec 2022

Licence

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

Agency

MSF (Ministry of Social and Family Development)