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Employment Assistance

Data from Jan 2013 to Jan 2023Updated 2 months ago

YRSG (Yellow Ribbon Singapore)

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EmploymentAssistance.csv (11 rows, 342 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)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2013	3876	2123	99
2014	4433	1938	96
2015	4745	2157	95
2016	5093	2061	96
2017	5520	2201	96
2018	5307	2336	95
2019	5603	2626	96
2020	5895	2768	93
2021	5634	2969	94
2022	6265	2615	93

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	Year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Number of Employers That Support Hiring Ex-offenders	Number_of_Employers_That_Support_Hiring_Exoffenders	Numeric	-	-
Number of Inmates Assisted	Number_of_Inmates_Assisted	Numeric	-	-
Percentage of Assisted Inmates who Secured Jobs	Percentage_of_Assisted_Inmates_who_Secured_Jobs	Numeric (Percentage)	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

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 (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved May 19, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_736a79e272d44ff6663e0d8c28af5456/view

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Created on

19 Mar 2025

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

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YRSG (Yellow Ribbon Singapore)