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Family Justice Courts Personal Protection Order Statistics

Data from Jan 2017 to Jan 2023

Last updated: 19 Jul 2024, 12:38 SGT

STATECOURTS (Judiciary, State Courts)

This dataset contains the annual fresh personal protection order cases received by the Family Justice Courts, breakdown by the gender of the applicant.

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_5f099776e231882b08832cf226928a87"
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.

Judiciary, State Courts. (2024). Family Justice Courts Personal Protection Order Statistics (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved December 25, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_5f099776e231882b08832cf226928a87/view

About this dataset

Contact

lee_meng_chung@judiciary.gov.sg ye_peishi@judiciary.gov.sg

Created on

21 May 2024

Licence

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

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STATECOURTS (Judiciary, State Courts)

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Family Justice Courts Personal Protection Order Statistics

Data from Jan 2017 to Jan 2023

Last updated: 19 Jul 2024, 12:38 SGT

STATECOURTS (Judiciary, State Courts)

This dataset contains the annual fresh personal protection order cases received by the Family Justice Courts, breakdown by the gender of the applicant.

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Data explorer

FamilyJusticeCourtsPersonalProtectionOrderStatistics.csv (14 rows, 208 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Genderofapplicant Text (Gender)	Count Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% F50.0% M50.0%	(Null)0.0%
2017	F	2053
2017	M	632
2018	F	1875
2018	M	605
2019	F	1873
2019	M	587
2020	F	1667
2020	M	581
2021	F	1458
2021	M	478

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	The year which the PPO case was filed.
Genderofapplicant	genderofapplicant	Text (Gender)	-	The gender of the applicant.
Count	count	Text	-	The number of PPO cases filed.

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