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Employment in Arts and Cultural Sector (Visual Arts)

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Employment in Arts and Cultural Sector (Visual Arts)

Data from Jan 2013 to Dec 2019

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:04 SGT

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)

Data has been rounded to the nearest hundreds

Employment in Arts and Cultural Sector (Visual Arts)

Data explorer

EmploymentinArtsandCulturalSectorVisualArts.csv (14 rows, 483 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Type Text	Employment Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2013	Fine Art, Crafts & Collectibles	3200
2013	Photography	4100
2014	Fine Art, Crafts & Collectibles	3700
2014	Photography	4700
2015	Fine Art, Crafts & Collectibles	3400
2015	Photography	4300
2016	Fine Art, Crafts & Collectibles	3400
2016	Photography	4100
2017	Fine Art, Crafts & Collectibles	3100
2017	Photography	4100

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Type	type	Text	-	-
Employment	employment	Numeric	Number	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_e1470940533730cc4a3839558e429aa6"
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 Culture, Community and Youth. (2021). Employment in Arts and Cultural Sector (Visual Arts) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 5, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_e1470940533730cc4a3839558e429aa6/view

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Created on

12 May 2021

Licence

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

Agency

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)