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Bankruptcy Discharges by Bankruptcy Number

Data from Jan 1951 to Dec 2015

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:04 SGT

MLAW (Ministry of Law)

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BankruptcyDischargesbyBankruptcyNumber.csv (52.3K rows, 1.2 MB)

Date of Bankruptcy Discharge Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	Bankruptcy Number Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
1951-01-22	B 0000161950F
1951-03-27	B 0000551948X
1951-07-27	B 0000721950T
1951-11-11	B 0000431950T
1951-11-23	B 0000411950Y
1953-03-06	B 0000591950L
1953-06-26	B 0000661951K
1953-07-03	B 0001521952T
1953-10-16	B 0001371953P
1953-10-23	B 0001321952P

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Date of Bankruptcy Discharge	discharge_date	Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	-	-
Bankruptcy Number	bankruptcy_no	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_e2c4fb9c8350ad15ab838aaf3ed24069"
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. (2016). Bankruptcy Discharges by Bankruptcy Number (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 7, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_e2c4fb9c8350ad15ab838aaf3ed24069/view

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Created on

01 Jul 2016

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

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MLAW (Ministry of Law)