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Collection: Commissioner of Charities Annual Report

Dataset: Number of Charities by Sector

Arts & Culture

Number of Charities by Sector

Data from Jan 2014 to Dec 2021

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:57 SGT

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)

This dataset is published in the Commissioner of Charities Annual Report which contains the number of charities sorted annually by sector

Number of Charities By Sector

Data explorer

NumberofCharitiesbySector.csv (64 rows, 1.2 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Primary Sector
Text
Value
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2020Arts & Heritage161
2020Community93
2020Education126
2020Health147
2020Religious1072
2020Others225
2020Social & Welfare427
2020Sports70
2021Arts & Heritage163
2021Community93
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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_bd72deef0a769a0177e5ab2b3ee031f0"
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. (2018). Number of Charities by Sector (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved May 26, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_bd72deef0a769a0177e5ab2b3ee031f0/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

23 Nov 2018

Licence

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

Agency

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)