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Collection: Singapore Cultural Statistics

Dataset: Government Funding ($mil)

Arts & Culture

Government Funding ($mil)

Data from Jan 2013 to Dec 2019

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:05 SGT

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)

The Arts & Heritage figures are based on financial year, and reflect operating and development expenditure for the arts & heritage sector. The Cultural Matching Fund was set up by the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth, to provide dollar-for-dollar matching grants for private cash donations to arts & heritage charities and Institutions of Public Character (IPC). The Library figures are based on financial year, and reflect operating and development expenditure for libraries.

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_e5f66019bf4af1baf65742dc61085c1d"
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). Government Funding ($mil) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved December 26, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_e5f66019bf4af1baf65742dc61085c1d/view

About this dataset

Contact

feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

07 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

Government Funding ($mil)

Data from Jan 2013 to Dec 2019

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:05 SGT

MCCY (Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth)

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Data explorer

GovernmentFundingmil.csv (21 rows, 561 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Funding Type Text	Amount Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)19.0%
2013	Arts & Heritage	439.6
2013	Cultural Matching Fund	-
2013	Library	249.8
2014	Arts & Heritage	495.1
2014	Cultural Matching Fund	51.9
2014	Library	337
2015	Arts & Heritage	522.7
2015	Cultural Matching Fund	79.5
2015	Library	334.5
2016	Arts & Heritage	420.1

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Funding Type	fundingtype	Text	-	-
Amount	amount	Numeric	$mil	-

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