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Transport

Effective Transfer of Car Ownership by Make

Data from Jan 2016 to Feb 2018

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:53 SGT

LTA (Land Transport Authority)

Figures include station wagons, tax exempted and VQS exempted cars but exclude taxis. (M07a)

No of transfers by Month

Data explorer

EffectiveTransferofCarOwnershipbyMake.csv (1.7K rows, 31.4 KB)

Month Month (YYYY-MM)	Make Text	No. of Transfers Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2016-01	ALFA ROMEO	14
2016-01	ASTON MARTIN	5
2016-01	AUDI	196
2016-01	AUSTIN	0
2016-01	B.M.W.	548
2016-01	BENTLEY	8
2016-01	BERTONE	0
2016-01	CHANA	0
2016-01	CHERY	17
2016-01	CHEVROLET	148

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Month	month	Month (YYYY-MM)	-	-
Make	make	Text	-	-
No. of Transfers	number	Numeric	No. of Transfers	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_ab595ec8b7cbcb7a40d49e5435c2f78a"
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.

Land Transport Authority. (2016). Effective Transfer of Car Ownership by Make (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 11, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_ab595ec8b7cbcb7a40d49e5435c2f78a/view

About this dataset

Contact

LTA-Vehicle_Stat@lta.gov.sg

Created on

28 Apr 2016

Licence

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

Agency

LTA (Land Transport Authority)