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Number of licensed moneylenders

Data from Jan 2013 to Dec 2021Updated 7 months ago

MLAW (Ministry of Law)

An annual snapshot of the number of licensed moneylenders

Number of Licensed Moneylenders

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Numberoflicensedmoneylenders.csv (9 rows, 105 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	No of moneylenders Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2013	200
2014	179
2015	170
2016	163
2017	159
2018	157
2019	156
2020	156
2021	156

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
No of moneylenders	no_of_moneylenders	Numeric	No. of licences	-

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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_9d8b838001de43d77e33a6108c49e9f8"
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 Law. (2017). Number of licensed moneylenders (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved January 15, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_9d8b838001de43d77e33a6108c49e9f8/view

About this dataset

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Created on

29 Aug 2017

Licence

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

Agency

MLAW (Ministry of Law)

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