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Remand Population

Data from Jan 2007 to Dec 2022Updated 10 months ago

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)

Remand Population as at 31 December of each year

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RemandPopulation.csv (16 rows, 182 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Number Of Population Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2007	524
2008	807
2009	812
2010	933
2011	1247
2012	1100
2013	1236
2014	1306
2015	1255
2016	1144

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Number Of Population	number_of_population	Numeric	Number of Inmates	-

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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_ab445d39f0ff5c38b6c7eac586db4b5c"
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). Remand Population (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 1, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_ab445d39f0ff5c38b6c7eac586db4b5c/view

About this dataset

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feedback@data.gov.sg

Created on

29 Mar 2016

Licence

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

Agency

SPS (Singapore Prison Service)