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Number of Arts and Cultural Companies

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Number of Arts and Cultural Companies

Data from Jan 2015 to Dec 2019

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:38 SGT

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)

Commercial (for-profit) and non-profit companies registered with the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) as at end of year. The number of arts and cultural companies includes companies that (i) play a role in content creation/distribution such as sound recording production companies and publishing companies, (ii) deal with retailed musical instruments and photographic equipment, (iii) conduct classes/courses in the arts (e.g. dance and music lessons). Others include cultural or heritage companies that are multi-disciplinary and do not specialise in an art form.

Number of Arts and Cultural Companies

Data explorer

NumberofArtsandCulturalCompanies.csv (35 rows, 637 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Art Form
Text
Companies
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2015Music1787
2015Dance476
2015Theatre513
2015Visual Arts1243
2015Craft600
2015Literary Arts1038
2015Others92
2016Music1879
2016Dance464
2016Theatre525

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
Art FormartformText--
CompaniescompaniesNumericNumber-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_5d6d714a58d9ff3911135b31e57deb33"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth. (2021). Number of Arts and Cultural Companies (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 4, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_5d6d714a58d9ff3911135b31e57deb33/view

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Created on

06 May 2021

Licence

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

Agency

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)