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Collection: Vocational Programmes

Dataset: Inmates under Employability Skills Training Programmes

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Inmates under Employability Skills Training Programmes

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

Number of inmates trained under employability skills training programmes and number of inmates engaged in work programmes. Inmates may attend more than one training course

Data from Jan 2020 to Jan 2025

Last updated 3 months ago (25 May 2026)

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_020be791f1cd0ca61e749c43e5dde1a2"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Created on

30 Mar 2016

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

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SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

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Inmates under Employability Skills Training Programmes

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

Number of inmates trained under employability skills training programmes and number of inmates engaged in work programmes. Inmates may attend more than one training course

Data from Jan 2020 to Jan 2025

Last updated 3 months ago (25 May 2026)

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InmatesunderEmployabilitySkillsTrainingProgrammes.csv (6 rows, 170 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Average No Of Training Hours Per Inmate Trained Per Year Text	No. Of Inmates Trained Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2020	54	4717
2021	60	4748
2022	64	3740
2023	80	4046
2024	102	3973
2025	92	4061

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Average No Of Training Hours Per Inmate Trained Per Year	Average_no_of_training_hours_per_inmate_trained_per_year	Text	-	-
No. Of Inmates Trained	no_of_inmates_trained	Numeric	Number of Inmates Trained	-

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Inmates under Employability Skills Training Programmes

Sample OpenAPI query