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Identification Marks for Cars Registered in Singapore

LTA (Land Transport Authority)

From SDQ series onwards, Prefix Commencing Year (Month) refers to the time when the series was first available for bidding.

Data from Aug 1972 to Jan 2018

Last updated 6 Jun 2024

Data explorer

IdentificationMarksforCarsRegisteredinSingapore.csv (206 rows, 2.4 KB)

Month Month (YYYY-MM)	Car Prefix Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
1972-08	EA
1973-10	EC
1973-03	EB
1974-03	ED
1975-02	EE
1976-12	EF
1977-09	EG
1978-10	EJ
1978-03	EH
1979-10	EL

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Month	month	Month (YYYY-MM)	-	-
Car Prefix	car_prefix	Text	-	Car Prefix

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_e20a118c3af1bb167cb7cbc17e44db18"
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.

Land Transport Authority. (2016). Identification Marks for Cars Registered in Singapore (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_e20a118c3af1bb167cb7cbc17e44db18/view

About this dataset

Contact

LTA-Vehicle_Stat@lta.gov.sg

Created on

30 Apr 2016

Licence

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

Agency

LTA (Land Transport Authority)