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Employment in Arts and Cultural Sector (Performing Arts)

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Employment in Arts and Cultural Sector (Performing Arts)

Data from Jan 2013 to Dec 2019

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:57 SGT

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)

Data has been rounded to the nearest hundreds

Employment in Arts and Cultural Sector (Performing Arts)

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EmploymentinArtsandCulturalSectorPerformingArts.csv (14 rows, 413 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Type
Text
Employment
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2013Live Performing Arts4400
2013Recorded Music1600
2014Live Performing Arts5000
2014Recorded Music1700
2015Live Performing Arts5100
2015Recorded Music1500
2016Live Performing Arts5100
2016Recorded Music1300
2017Live Performing Arts5300
2017Recorded Music1300

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Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
TypetypeText--
EmploymentemploymentNumericNumber-
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_bcfbc538552950b5800b8455767aae9e"
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 Culture, Community and Youth. (2021). Employment in Arts and Cultural Sector (Performing Arts) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 18, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_bcfbc538552950b5800b8455767aae9e/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)