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Tier 2 Child Abuse Data by Age and Type of Abuse (Domestic Violence Trends Report)

Updated 7 months ago

MSF (Ministry of Social and Family Development)

Breakdown of new child abuse cases investigated by MSF Child Protective Service by age and type of abuse, from 2021 to 2023. The number of new cases may not equate to the unique number of survivors. For example, if a case was closed by MSF, and subsequently re-opened due to new incidences of abuse, it would be counted as two cases. If a case is overseen by both MSF and a community agency, it would be reflected as a case each in both the Tier 1 and Tier 2 datasets.

Data explorer

Tier2ChildAbuseDatabyAgeandTypeofAbuseDomesticViolenceTrendsReport.csv (48 rows, 1.9 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Age
Text
Type of Abuse
Text
Total
Text
(Null)0.0%
202133.3%
202233.3%
202333.3%
(Null)0.0%
0 to 6 years25.0%
7 to 12 years25.0%
13 to 16 years25.0%
17 to 18 years25.0%
(Null)0.0%
Neglect25.0%
Sexual Abuse25.0%
Physical Abuse25.0%
Emotional & Psychological Abuse25.0%
(Null)0.0%
20210 to 6 yearsPhysical Abuse325
20210 to 6 yearsNeglect210
20210 to 6 yearsSexual Abuse96
20210 to 6 yearsEmotional & Psychological Abuse104
20220 to 6 yearsPhysical Abuse318
20220 to 6 yearsNeglect217
20220 to 6 yearsSexual Abuse68
20220 to 6 yearsEmotional & Psychological Abuse183
20230 to 6 yearsPhysical Abuse361
20230 to 6 yearsNeglect231

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearYearYear (YYYY)--
AgeAgeText--
Type of AbuseType_of_AbuseText--
TotalTotalText--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_da48d41d1dda17005755a603489c6a40"
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 Social and Family Development. (2024). Tier 2 Child Abuse Data by Age and Type of Abuse (Domestic Violence Trends Report) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 24, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_da48d41d1dda17005755a603489c6a40/view

About this dataset

Contact

Kenneth_TAN@msf.gov.sgLIM_Teck_Nam@msf.gov.sg

Created on

27 Sep 2024

Licence

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

Agency

MSF (Ministry of Social and Family Development)