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Collection: Convicted Penal Admission

Dataset: Convicted Penal Admission by Age Group (2006-2020)

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Convicted Penal Admission by Age Group (2006-2020)

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

Convicted penal inmates admitted in each year breakdown by age group.

Data from Jan 2006 to Dec 2020

Last updated 6 Jun 2024

Convicted Penal Admission by Age Group

Data explorer

ConvictedPenalAdmissionbyAgeGroup20062020.csv (90 rows, 1.5 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Admissions By Age Group Text	Number Of Admissions Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2006	Below 21	1100
2006	21-30	6375
2006	31-40	6872
2006	41-50	3548
2006	51-60	1031
2006	60 Above	179
2007	Below 21	1110
2007	21-30	6022
2007	31-40	6590
2007	41-50	3842

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Admissions By Age Group	admissions_by_age_group	Text	-	-
Number Of Admissions	number_of_admissions	Numeric	Number of Inmates	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_58e81232c1f239b8328220575eba3f66"
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. (2018). Convicted Penal Admission by Age Group (2006-2020) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_58e81232c1f239b8328220575eba3f66/view

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Created on

17 Jul 2018

Licence

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

Agency

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)