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Health

Number of Pharmacists

Data from Jan 2006 to Dec 2021Updated 7 months ago

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Number of Pharmacists (Public, Private, Not in Active Practice)

Count by Year

Data explorer

NumberofPharmacists.csv (48 rows, 1.3 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sector Text	Count Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2006	Public Sector	449
2006	Private Sector	832
2006	Not in Active Practice	140
2007	Public Sector	484
2007	Private Sector	865
2007	Not in Active Practice	134
2008	Public Sector	555
2008	Private Sector	858
2008	Not in Active Practice	133
2009	Public Sector	630

Column legend

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

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_4e363bee1f4dc83cd68536eb5037b590"
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 Pharmacists (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved January 15, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_4e363bee1f4dc83cd68536eb5037b590/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)

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