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Convicted Penal Population by Offence Group

Data from Jan 2007 to Dec 2022Updated 6 months ago

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

Convicted Penal Population as at 31 December 2022 of each year breakdown by offence group.

Convicted Penal Population by Offence Group

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ConvictedPenalPopulationbyOffenceGroup.csv (160 rows, 4.5 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Population By Main Offence Group Text	Number Of Population Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)7.5%
2007	Crimes Against Person	630
2007	Property Crimes	2501
2007	Commercial Crimes	674
2007	Drug Offences	4434
2007	Immigration Offences	765
2007	Crimes Against Public Order	251
2007	Customs Offences	na
2007	Crimes Under Women's Charter	33
2007	Traffic Offences	56
2007	Other Offences	1102

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Population By Main Offence Group	population_by_main_offence_group	Text	-	-
Number Of Population	number_of_population	Numeric	Number of Inmates	-

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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_4da5f27c66f2967763aa5729e3d373b2"
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.

Singapore Prison Service. (2016). Convicted Penal Population by Offence Group (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 22, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_4da5f27c66f2967763aa5729e3d373b2/view

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Created on

29 Mar 2016

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

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SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

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