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Environment

Number of Licensed Hawkers Under Government Market and Hawker Centres, Annual

Data from Jan 1981 to Dec 2015

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:46 SGT

NEA (National Environment Agency)

Number of licenses by Year

Data explorer

NumberofLicensedHawkersUnderGovernmentMarketandHawkerCentresAnnual.csv (105 rows, 2.6 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Type of Goods Text	Number of Licenses Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
1981	Cooked Food	4521
1981	Market Produce	4216
1981	Piece and Sundries	1508
1982	Cooked Food	4340
1982	Market Produce	4158
1982	Piece and Sundries	1320
1983	Cooked Food	3863
1983	Market Produce	3560
1983	Piece and Sundries	983
1984	Cooked Food	3506

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Type of Goods	type_of_goods	Text	-	-
Number of Licenses	no_of_licenses	Numeric	Number of Licenses	-

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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_874cb8683b003051794caaa0c2423ed5"
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.

National Environment Agency. (2016). Number of Licensed Hawkers Under Government Market and Hawker Centres, Annual (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved January 23, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_874cb8683b003051794caaa0c2423ed5/view

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Created on

03 Oct 2016

Licence

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

Agency

NEA (National Environment Agency)