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Total amount of pawnbroking loans as a proportion of the consumer credit market

Data from Jan 2013 to Dec 2015

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:59 SGT

MLAW (Ministry of Law)

Total amount of pawnbroking loans taken in relation to/as a proportion of the consumer credit market per year. Here, the consumer credit market refers to the outstanding personal loans taken by Singapore households, including credit/charge cards, pawnbroking loans, licensed moneylending loans and other types of consumer loans, but exclulding mortgage and motor vehicle loans.

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_ca4094a1cc49ba6dd6840a0b96e1ab1d"
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 Law. (2017). Total amount of pawnbroking loans as a proportion of the consumer credit market (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved December 12, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_ca4094a1cc49ba6dd6840a0b96e1ab1d/view