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Grassroots Organisations

Data from Dec 2013 to Dec 2024

Last updated: 24 Nov 2025, 11:36 SGT

PA (People's Association)

Note: T-Net Club Management Committees were dissolved in 2020

No of grassroots org by Grassroots org type

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GrassrootsOrganisations.csv (168 rows, 7.7 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Grassroots Org Type Text	No Of Grassroots Org Numeric
(Null)0.0% 20138.3% 20148.3% 20158.3% 20168.3%	(Null)0.0% CCC-Area Sub Committees7.1% Building Fund Committees7.1% Women's Executive Committees7.1% Community Development Councils7.1%	(Null)0.0%
2013	Building Fund Committees	50
2013	CCC-Area Sub Committees	39
2013	Citizens' Consultative Committees	87
2013	Community Club Management Committees	107
2013	Community Development Councils	5
2013	Community Emergency and Engagement Committees	87
2013	Community Sports Clubs/Community Sports Networks	86
2013	Indian Activity Executive Committees	95
2013	Malay Activity Executive Committees	99
2013	Residents' Committees/Residents' Networks/Neighbourhood Committees	723

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Grassroots Org Type	grassroots_org_type	Text	-	-
No Of Grassroots Org	no_of_grassroots_org	Numeric	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_a68b842d04a6a2b5147ec8618d382c00"
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.

People's Association. (2015). Grassroots Organisations (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 3, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_a68b842d04a6a2b5147ec8618d382c00/view

About this dataset

Contact

cheryl_toh@pa.gov.sg margaret_koh@pa.gov.sg

Created on

20 May 2015

Licence

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

Agency

PA (People's Association)