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Convicted Penal Population

Convicted Penal Population by Education Level

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Convicted Penal Population by Education Level

Data from Jan 2006 to Dec 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:59 SGT

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

Convicted Penal Population as at 31 December 2022 of each year breakdown by education level.

Convicted Penal Population by Education Level

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ConvictedPenalPopulationbyEducationLevel.csv (102 rows, 2.2 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Population By Education Level Text	Number Of Population Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2006	No Education	427
2006	Primary	4740
2006	Secondary	4974
2006	Pre University	258
2006	Vocational	603
2006	Tertiary & Above	270
2007	No Education	254
2007	Primary	4344
2007	Secondary	4811
2007	Pre University	191

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Population By Education Level	population_by_education_level	Text	-	-
Number Of Population	number_of_population	Numeric	Number of Inmates	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_c7821442f0c469beb967d89c4d933786"
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. (2016). Convicted Penal Population by Education Level (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 19, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_c7821442f0c469beb967d89c4d933786/view

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Created on

29 Mar 2016

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

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SPS (Singapore Prison Service)