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Collection: Vocational Programmes

Dataset: Inmates under Employability Skills Training Programmes

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Inmates under Employability Skills Training Programmes

Data from Jan 2006 to Dec 2021

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:20 SGT

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

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())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Singapore Prison Service. (2016). Inmates under Employability Skills Training Programmes (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved December 27, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_020be791f1cd0ca61e749c43e5dde1a2/view

About this dataset

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feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

30 Mar 2016

Licence

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

Agency

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

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Social

Inmates under Employability Skills Training Programmes

Data from Jan 2006 to Dec 2021

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:20 SGT

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

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Data explorer

InmatesunderEmployabilitySkillsTrainingProgrammes.csv (16 rows, 291 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	No. Of Training Places Numeric	No. Of Inmates Trained Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)18.8%	(Null)12.5%
2006	na	na
2007	na	na
2008	na	2980
2009	8537	3567
2010	13472	4261
2011	14754	5094
2012	19788	5840
2013	22504	5896
2014	21093	5482
2015	26660	5137

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
No. Of Training Places	no_of_training_places	Numeric	Number of Training Places	-
No. Of Inmates Trained	no_of_inmates_trained	Numeric	Number of Inmates Trained	-

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