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Collection: Number of Nurses and Midwives

Dataset: Number of Nurses and Midwives

Health

Number of Nurses and Midwives

MOH (Ministry of Health)

Data from Jan 2006 to Dec 2022

Last updated 6 Jun 2024

Count by Year

Data explorer

NumberofNursesandMidwives.csv (153 rows, 6.7 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Type
Text
Sector
Text
Count
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2006Registered NursesPublic Sector8495
2006Registered NursesPrivate Sector4566
2006Registered NursesNot in Active Practice2391
2006Enrolled NursesPublic Sector2956
2006Enrolled NursesPrivate Sector1484
2006Enrolled NursesNot in Active Practice723
2006Registered MidwivesPublic Sector123
2006Registered MidwivesPrivate Sector59
2006Registered MidwivesNot in Active Practice130
2007Registered NursesPublic Sector9068
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_60cebb9df21f79d57cd4236b5bb89130"
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 Nurses and Midwives (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_60cebb9df21f79d57cd4236b5bb89130/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)