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MCCY Social Values Survey

Description of variables

Arts & Culture

Description of variables

Data from Dec 2018 to Mar 2019

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:40 SGT

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)

Contains the description of variables found in “Social Values Survey data”

Data explorer

Descriptionofvariables.csv (120 rows, 10 KB)

Var name Text	Var label Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
uid	UID. Unique respondent ID
sample	Sample. Sample type
gender	Gender. Gender
age_2	Age_2. Age groups
dwelling	Dwelling. Dwelling type
industry	Industry. Current industry
social_involve_1	Social_involve. Participation in any social groups - Sports related groups (e.g. soccer, running, badminton etc)
social_involve_2	Social_involve. Participation in any social groups - Arts and Cultural groups (e.g. dance groups, book club, band etc)
social_involve_3	Social_involve. Participation in any social groups - Community groups (e.g. resident community etc)
social_involve_4	Social_involve. Participation in any social groups - Welfare & Self-Help groups (e.g. non-profit organisations)

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Var name	var_name	Text	-	-
Var label	var_label	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_6b8a71d993dec5e5096cf1dd9befc1a2"
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 Culture, Community and Youth. (2023). Description of variables (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 12, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_6b8a71d993dec5e5096cf1dd9befc1a2/view

About this dataset

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feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

16 Jun 2023

Licence

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

Agency

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)