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Distribution of Charities by Registration Status and Sector, Annual

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Distribution of Charities by Registration Status and Sector, Annual

Data from Jan 2014 to Dec 2014

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:51 SGT

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)

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DistributionofCharitiesbyRegistrationStatusandSectorAnnual.csv (9 rows, 257 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sector Text	No of reg charities Text	Newly registered charities Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2014	Arts & Heritage	124	9
2014	Community	88	1
2014	Education	119	5
2014	Health	131	8
2014	Religious	1,071	2
2014	Others	219	16
2014	Social & Welfare	364	9
2014	Sports	64	1
2014	Total	2,180	51

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sector	sector	Text	-	-
No of reg charities	no_of_reg_charities	Text	-	-
Newly registered charities	newly_registered_charities	Numeric	Number	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_a1869ddbd666ac57f10cb59539739de8"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth. (2017). Distribution of Charities by Registration Status and Sector, Annual (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 18, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_a1869ddbd666ac57f10cb59539739de8/view

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Created on

16 Mar 2017

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

Agency

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)