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Skills Training for Inmates

YRSG (Yellow Ribbon Singapore)

Data from 2013 to 2025

Last updated 3 months ago (8 Jun 2026)

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SkillsTrainingforInmates.csv (13 rows, 253 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Average Number of Training Hours per Inmate Trained Numeric	Number Of Inmates Trained Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)53.8%	(Null)0.0%
2013		5896
2014		5582
2015		5137
2016		5131
2017		4653
2018		4340
2019		5923
2020	54	4717
2021	60	4748
2022	64	3740

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	Year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Average Number of Training Hours per Inmate Trained	Average_Number_of_Training_Hours_per_Inmate_Trained	Numeric	-	Historical data prior to 2020 is unavailable
Number Of Inmates Trained	Number_of_Inmates_Trained	Numeric	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_fc9aab5c38e17c478101cd39804555e1"
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.

Yellow Ribbon Singapore. (2025). Skills Training for Inmates (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_fc9aab5c38e17c478101cd39804555e1/view

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Created on

19 Mar 2025

Licence

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

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YRSG (Yellow Ribbon Singapore)