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Economy

Registered Arts And Cultural Societies And Companies (End Of Period), Annual

Data from Jan 2013 to Dec 2022

Last updated: 14 Jul 2025, 22:01 SGT

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: NATIONAL ARTS COUNCIL

Data Last Updated: 17/10/2024

Update Frequency: Annual

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/TS/M891011

Data explorer

RegisteredArtsAndCulturalSocietiesAndCompaniesEndOfPeriodAnnual.csv (16 rows, 1.2 KB)

Data Series Text	2022 Numeric	2021 Numeric	2020 Numeric	2019 Numeric	2018 Numeric	2017 Numeric	2016 Numeric	2015 Numeric	2014 Numeric	2013 Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
Total Societies	544	536	521	512	509	504	492	502	487	478
Music	171	168	163	161	160	163	159	160	152	147
Dance	47	47	47	46	48	47	46	48	45	45
Theatre	92	91	90	90	91	90	89	95	94	92
Visual Arts	86	86	82	82	82	80	79	81	81	80
Craft	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	5	5
Literary Arts	71	69	68	68	62	61	59	59	58	58
Others	71	69	65	59	60	57	54	54	52	51
Total Companies	4830	4182	4066	3661	4699	4945	5423	5749	5412	5486
Music	1116	1061	1351	1329	1865	1796	1879	1787	1671	1555

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Data Series	DataSeries	Text	Number	-
2022	2022	Numeric	Number	-
2021	2021	Numeric	Number	-
2020	2020	Numeric	Number	-
2019	2019	Numeric	Number	-
2018	2018	Numeric	Number	-
2017	2017	Numeric	Number	-
2016	2016	Numeric	Number	-
2015	2015	Numeric	Number	-
2014	2014	Numeric	Number	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_d0a683445c8fd375ac678c84aa2bc88d"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Registered Arts And Cultural Societies And Companies (End Of Period), Annual (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 26, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_d0a683445c8fd375ac678c84aa2bc88d/view

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Created on

24 Oct 2024

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

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)