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Employment Assistance

YRSG (Yellow Ribbon Singapore)

Data from 2013 to 2025

Last updated 3 months ago (8 Jun 2026)

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EmploymentAssistance.csv (13 rows, 376 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Number of Employers That Support Hiring Ex-offenders
Numeric
Number of Inmates Assisted
Numeric
Percentage of Assisted Inmates who Secured Jobs
Numeric (Percentage)
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)7.7%
(Null)0.0%
20133876212399
20144433193896
20154745215795
20165093206196
20175520220196
20185307233695
20195603262696
20205895276893
20215634296994
20226265261593
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_736a79e272d44ff6663e0d8c28af5456"
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.

Yellow Ribbon Singapore. (2025). Employment Assistance (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_736a79e272d44ff6663e0d8c28af5456/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@yellowribbon.gov.sg

Created on

19 Mar 2025

Licence

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

Agency

YRSG (Yellow Ribbon Singapore)