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Collection: Singapore Cultural Statistics

Dataset: Number of Arts and Cultural Societies

Arts & Culture

Number of Arts and Cultural Societies

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)

Societies registered with the Registry of Societies as at end of year. Others include cultural or heritage societies that are multi-disciplinary and do not specialise in an art form.

Data from Jan 2015 to Dec 2019

Last updated 6 Jun 2024

Number of Arts and Cultural Societies

Data explorer

NumberofArtsandCulturalSocieties.csv (35 rows, 598 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Art Form
Text
Societies
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2015Music160
2015Dance48
2015Theatre95
2015Visual Arts81
2015Craft5
2015Literary Arts59
2015Others54
2016Music159
2016Dance46
2016Theatre89
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_86cdcf5fac0de0162b05172c37acf610"
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. (2021). Number of Arts and Cultural Societies (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_86cdcf5fac0de0162b05172c37acf610/view

About this dataset

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Created on

06 May 2021

Licence

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

Agency

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)