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Singapore Cultural Statistics

Operating Receipts ($mil) (Arts and Cultural Sector - Visual Arts)

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Operating Receipts ($mil) (Arts and Cultural Sector - Visual Arts)

Data from Jan 2013 to Dec 2018

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:53 SGT

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)

Data exclude own-account workers (e.g. freelancers)

Operating Receipts ($mil) (Arts and Cultural Sector - Visual Arts)

Data explorer

OperatingReceiptsmilArtsandCulturalSectorVisualArts.csv (12 rows, 443 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Type Text	Operating Receipts Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2013	Fine Art, Crafts & Collectibles	653.54
2013	Photography	3286.3
2014	Fine Art, Crafts & Collectibles	656.9
2014	Photography	3479.6
2015	Fine Art, Crafts & Collectibles	673.7
2015	Photography	3147.7
2016	Fine Art, Crafts & Collectibles	704.6
2016	Photography	2692.0
2017	Fine Art, Crafts & Collectibles	657.1
2017	Photography	2779.0

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Type	type	Text	-	-
Operating Receipts	operatingreceipts	Numeric	$mil	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_ad00670857813aabd2dd4626486f309e"
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. (2021). Operating Receipts ($mil) (Arts and Cultural Sector - Visual Arts) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 16, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_ad00670857813aabd2dd4626486f309e/view

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Created on

12 May 2021

Licence

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

Agency

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)