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

Data from Jan 2012 to Dec 2020Updated 4 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
Datetime (Year) "YYYY"
Population By Age Group
Text (General)
Population By Main Offence Group
Text (General)
Number Of Population
Numeric (General)
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2012Below 21Crimes Against Person33
2012Below 21Commercial Crimes69
2012Below 21Crimes Against Public Order42
2012Below 21Customs Offences3
2012Below 21Drug Offences46
2012Below 21Immigration Offences3
2012Below 21Other Offences3
2012Below 21Property Crimes143
2012Below 21Traffic Offences2
201221-30 yrsCrimes Against Person139

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Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearDatetime (Year) "YYYY"--
Population By Age Grouppopulation_by_age_groupText (General)--
Population By Main Offence Grouppopulation_by_main_offence_groupText (General)--
Number Of Populationnumber_of_populationNumeric (General)Number of Inmates-

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
          
datasetId = "d_7c1a67a1c29b45015f2012e03ed068f3"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + datasetId 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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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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