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Arts & Culture

Number of Arts and Cultural Companies

Data from Jan 2015 to Dec 2019Updated 9 months ago

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)

Commercial (for-profit) and non-profit companies registered with the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) as at end of year. The number of arts and cultural companies includes companies that (i) play a role in content creation/distribution such as sound recording production companies and publishing companies, (ii) deal with retailed musical instruments and photographic equipment, (iii) conduct classes/courses in the arts (e.g. dance and music lessons). Others include cultural or heritage companies that are multi-disciplinary and do not specialise in an art form.

Data explorer

NumberofArtsandCulturalCompanies.csv (35 rows, 637 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Art Form Text	Companies Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2015	Music	1787
2015	Dance	476
2015	Theatre	513
2015	Visual Arts	1243
2015	Craft	600
2015	Literary Arts	1038
2015	Others	92
2016	Music	1879
2016	Dance	464
2016	Theatre	525

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Art Form	artform	Text	-	-
Companies	companies	Numeric	Number	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_5d6d714a58d9ff3911135b31e57deb33"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth. (2021). Number of Arts and Cultural Companies (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved March 14, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_5d6d714a58d9ff3911135b31e57deb33/view

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Created on

06 May 2021

Licence

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

Agency

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)