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Bankruptcy Petitions/Applications by Bankruptcy Number

Data from Jan 1933 to Dec 2015

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:58 SGT

MLAW (Ministry of Law)

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BankruptcyPetitionsApplicationsbyBankruptcyNumber.csv (72.9K rows, 1.7 MB)

Date of Bankruptcy Application/Petition Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	Bankruptcy Number Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
1933-01-06	B 0009261932E
1936-02-09	B 0002321996A
1941-03-18	B 0000751941T
1947-03-28	B 0000211949F
1948-05-28	B 0000141948K
1948-05-31	B 0000221948E
1948-06-11	B 0000181948L
1948-06-16	B 0000261948X
1948-06-16	B 0000261948X
1948-06-16	B 0000261948X

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Date of Bankruptcy Application/Petition	appln_petition_date	Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	-	-
Bankruptcy Number	bankruptcy_no	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_c2bd8cbf79582869bda11f69cae6c059"
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 Law. (2016). Bankruptcy Petitions/Applications by Bankruptcy Number (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 22, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_c2bd8cbf79582869bda11f69cae6c059/view

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Created on

01 Jul 2016

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

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MLAW (Ministry of Law)