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Health

Number of Doctors

Data from Jan 2006 to Dec 2022Updated 4 months ago

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Number of Doctors (Specialist, Non-specialist / Public, Private, Not in Active Practice). Includes doctors registered under Temporary Registration for service provision from Year 2010 onwards.

Count by Year

Data explorer

NumberofDoctors.csv (96 rows, 3.3 KB)

Year
Datetime (Year) "YYYY"
Sector
Text (General)
Specialist non-specialist
Text (General)
Count
Numeric (General)
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)6.3%
(Null)0.0%
2006Publicna3505
2006Privatena2966
2006Not In Active Practicena460
2007Publicna3991
2007Privatena3004
2007Not In Active Practicena469
2008PublicSpecialist1723
2008PublicNon-Specialist2574
2008PrivateSpecialist1046
2008PrivateNon-Specialist2005

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearDatetime (Year) "YYYY"--
SectorsectorText (General)--
Specialist non-specialistspecialist_non-specialistText (General)--
CountcountNumeric (General)Doctors-

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_4a15de043d48bf829b6d97c6068bbf03"
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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