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Tier 2 Elderly Vulnerable Adult (VA) abuse cases by sex and type of abuse 2021 - 2023 (Domestic Violence Trends Report)

Data from Jan 2021 to Dec 2023Updated 8 months ago

MSF (Ministry of Social and Family Development)

Breakdown of Elderly Vulnerable Adult (VA) abuse cases by sex and type of abuse overseen by MSF Adult Protective Service (APS) from 2021 to 2023

Data explorer

Tier2ElderlyVulnerableAdultVAabusecasesbysexandtypeofabuse20212023DomesticViolenceTrendsReport.csv (24 rows, 802 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sex Text	Type Of Abuse Text	No Of Elderly VA Cases Numeric
(Null)0.0% 202133.3% 202233.3% 202333.3%	(Null)0.0% Male50.0% Female50.0%	(Null)0.0% Neglect25.0% Sexual Abuse25.0% Physical Abuse25.0% Emotional & Psychological Abuse25.0%	(Null)0.0%
2021	Female	Physical Abuse	24
2022	Female	Physical Abuse	15
2023	Female	Physical Abuse	11
2021	Male	Physical Abuse	17
2022	Male	Physical Abuse	8
2023	Male	Physical Abuse	14
2021	Female	Neglect	25
2022	Female	Neglect	16
2023	Female	Neglect	9
2021	Male	Neglect	13

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	Year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sex	Sex	Text	-	-
Type Of Abuse	Type_of_Abuse	Text	-	-
No Of Elderly VA Cases	No_of_elderly_VA_cases	Numeric	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_b39a992bd95971442c686498c9cd4798"
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 Social and Family Development. (2024). Tier 2 Elderly Vulnerable Adult (VA) abuse cases by sex and type of abuse 2021 - 2023 (Domestic Violence Trends Report) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved May 11, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_b39a992bd95971442c686498c9cd4798/view

About this dataset

Contact

Bryan_NG@msf.gov.sg

Created on

26 Sep 2024

Licence

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

Agency

MSF (Ministry of Social and Family Development)