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Convicted Penal Population by Age Group and Offence Group (2006-2020)

Data from Jan 2012 to Dec 2020Updated 6 months ago

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

Population of convicted penal inmates as at 31 December 2020 breakdown by age group and offence group.

2020 Convicted Penal Population by Age Group and Offence Group

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ConvictedPenalPopulationbyAgeGroupandOffenceGroup20062020.csv (486 rows, 18 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Population By Age Group Text	Population By Main Offence Group Text	Number Of Population Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2012	Below 21	Crimes Against Person	33
2012	Below 21	Commercial Crimes	69
2012	Below 21	Crimes Against Public Order	42
2012	Below 21	Customs Offences	3
2012	Below 21	Drug Offences	46
2012	Below 21	Immigration Offences	3
2012	Below 21	Other Offences	3
2012	Below 21	Property Crimes	143
2012	Below 21	Traffic Offences	2
2012	21-30 yrs	Crimes Against Person	139

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Population By Age Group	population_by_age_group	Text	-	-
Population By Main Offence Group	population_by_main_offence_group	Text	-	-
Number Of Population	number_of_population	Numeric	Number of Inmates	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_7c1a67a1c29b45015f2012e03ed068f3"
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.

Singapore Prison Service. (2016). Convicted Penal Population by Age Group and Offence Group (2006-2020) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 22, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_7c1a67a1c29b45015f2012e03ed068f3/view

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Created on

29 Mar 2016

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

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SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

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