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Inmates admitted to undergo treatment and rehabilitation in Drug Rehabilitation Centre (DRC)

Inmates admitted to Drug Rehabilitation Centre (DRC) by Gender

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Inmates admitted to Drug Rehabilitation Centre (DRC) by Gender

Data from Jan 2006 to Dec 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:57 SGT

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

Inmates admitted to undergo treatment and rehabilitation in Drug Rehabilitation Centre (DRC) in each year breakdown by gender.

Data explorer

InmatesadmittedtoDrugRehabilitationCentreDRCbyGender.csv (34 rows, 563 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Admissions By Gender Text	Number Of Admissions Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2006	Male	349
2006	Female	87
2007	Male	399
2007	Female	111
2008	Male	385
2008	Female	96
2009	Male	435
2009	Female	100
2010	Male	554
2010	Female	134

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Admissions By Gender	admissions_by_gender	Text	-	-
Number Of Admissions	number_of_admissions	Numeric	Number of Inmates	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_bdd625091e115bd9c8d8d3128147a00b"
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.

Singapore Prison Service. (2018). Inmates admitted to Drug Rehabilitation Centre (DRC) by Gender (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 16, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_bdd625091e115bd9c8d8d3128147a00b/view

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Created on

17 Jul 2018

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

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SPS (Singapore Prison Service)