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Number of pawnbroking licenses

Data from Jan 2013 to Jan 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:27 SGT

MLAW (Ministry of Law)

Snapshot of the number of pawnbroking licensees per year.

Data explorer

Numberofpawnbrokinglicenses.csv (10 rows, 110 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
No of licences
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2013204
2014227
2015226
2016224
2017225
2018232
2019233
2020236
2021241
2022234
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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_dc5ff5746a3fc254d3b44be97b8aadee"
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. (2017). Number of pawnbroking licenses (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 5, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_dc5ff5746a3fc254d3b44be97b8aadee/view

About this dataset

Contact

oh_keng_cheng@mlaw.gov.sg

Created on

29 Aug 2017

Licence

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

Agency

MLAW (Ministry of Law)