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State Courts Clearance Rate Figures, 2016 to 2022

Data from Jan 2016 to Jan 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:23 SGT

STATECOURTS (Judiciary, State Courts)

Clearance rate is the number of cases disposed expressed as a percentage of the number of cases filed in the same year. The clearance rate can exceed 100% as those disposed of are not necessarily a subset of the filings in that year.

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_8f9b88e7bfdd1725e125f0099fdede1e"
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. (2019). State Courts Clearance Rate Figures, 2016 to 2022 (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved December 19, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_8f9b88e7bfdd1725e125f0099fdede1e/view

About this dataset

Contact

looi_siew_yuen@judiciary.gov.sg shen_qinghui@judiciary.gov.sg

Created on

25 Sep 2019

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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State Courts Clearance Rate Figures, 2016 to 2022

Data from Jan 2016 to Jan 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:23 SGT

STATECOURTS (Judiciary, State Courts)

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StateCourtsClearanceRateFigures2016to2022.csv (28 rows, 1000 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Category Text	Clearance rate percentage Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% OVERALL25.0% CIVIL JUSTICE DIVISION25.0% CRIMINAL JUSTICE DIVISION25.0% COMMUNITY JUSTICE and TRIBUNALS DIVISION25.0%	(Null)0.0%
2016	OVERALL	1.01
2016	CRIMINAL JUSTICE DIVISION	1
2016	CIVIL JUSTICE DIVISION	1.01
2016	COMMUNITY JUSTICE and TRIBUNALS DIVISION	1.03
2017	OVERALL	0.92
2017	CRIMINAL JUSTICE DIVISION	0.91
2017	CIVIL JUSTICE DIVISION	0.97
2017	COMMUNITY JUSTICE and TRIBUNALS DIVISION	0.92
2018	OVERALL	1.03
2018	CRIMINAL JUSTICE DIVISION	1.05

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Category	category	Text	-	-
Clearance rate percentage	clearance_rate_percentage	Numeric	-	-

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