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Collection: Singapore Cultural Statistics

Dataset: Employment in Arts and Cultural Sector (Performing Arts)

Arts & Culture

Employment in Arts and Cultural Sector (Performing Arts)

Data from Jan 2013 to Dec 2019

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:57 SGT

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)

Data has been rounded to the nearest hundreds

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_bcfbc538552950b5800b8455767aae9e"
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 Culture, Community and Youth. (2021). Employment in Arts and Cultural Sector (Performing Arts) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved December 13, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_bcfbc538552950b5800b8455767aae9e/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

12 May 2021

Licence

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

Agency

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)

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Arts & Culture

Employment in Arts and Cultural Sector (Performing Arts)

Data from Jan 2013 to Dec 2019

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:57 SGT

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)

Data has been rounded to the nearest hundreds

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Data explorer

EmploymentinArtsandCulturalSectorPerformingArts.csv (14 rows, 413 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Type Text	Employment Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2013	Live Performing Arts	4400
2013	Recorded Music	1600
2014	Live Performing Arts	5000
2014	Recorded Music	1700
2015	Live Performing Arts	5100
2015	Recorded Music	1500
2016	Live Performing Arts	5100
2016	Recorded Music	1300
2017	Live Performing Arts	5300
2017	Recorded Music	1300

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Type	type	Text	-	-
Employment	employment	Numeric	Number	-

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