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Convicted Penal Population by Gender

Data from Jan 2006 to Dec 2022Updated 6 months ago

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

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

Convicted Penal Population by Gender

Data explorer

ConvictedPenalPopulationbyGender.csv (34 rows, 577 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Population By Gender Text	Number Of Population Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2006	Male	9943
2006	Female	1329
2007	Male	9544
2007	Female	902
2008	Male	9673
2008	Female	955
2009	Male	10302
2009	Female	986
2010	Male	10156
2010	Female	998

Column legend

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

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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_dfdc5edfb76b41a0f909b0a375b27c4e"
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 Gender (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 22, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_dfdc5edfb76b41a0f909b0a375b27c4e/view

About this dataset

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Created on

29 Mar 2016

Licence

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

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SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

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