Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY) curates the Singapore Cultural Statistics (SCS) open-data collection with dozens of CSV indicators on arts and culture in Singapore. Topics span employment, value-added, museum visitorship, performing arts attendance, education enrolment, and community arts participation. Researchers and cultural policymakers can compare trends across performing arts, visual arts, and heritage institutions from 2013 through 2019. The breadth of member datasets makes this a central hub for Singapore cultural sector metrics.
The Singapore Cultural Statistics (SCS) reports administrative data and statistics on arts and cultural activities in Singapore
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth annual CSV of performing-arts activity counts from 2013 to 2019. It distinguishes ticketed and non-ticketed dance, music—including pop and rock concerts—and theatre activities across folk, traditional, classical, and contemporary forms. Cultural researchers can track the volume and mix of performances.
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth annual CSV of students participating in arts-related co-curricular activities from 2013 to 2019. Counts are broken down by art form and cover primary and secondary schools, junior colleges, and centralised institutes. Education and culture analysts can compare student engagement across art forms.
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth CSV of nominal value-added (S$ million) for Singapore’s visual-arts segment of the arts and cultural sector from 2013 through 2018. Columns cover year, type, and value-added; own-account workers such as freelancers are excluded. Cultural-economy analysts track visual-arts contribution to sector GDP.
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth CSV of government funding in million Singapore dollars by year and funding type from 2013 through 2019, covering arts and heritage operating and development expenditure, the Cultural Matching Fund, and library spending. Cultural-policy analysts track public investment in arts, heritage, and libraries.
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth CSV of non-ticketed attendance at arts and heritage events in Singapore from 2013 through 2019 by year and type. Footnotes define NAC/Esplanade/PA arts events and NHB heritage outreach, excluding incidental viewership. Cultural analysts track free-access participation in Singapore’s arts scene.
Annual employment counts for the visual arts segment of Singapore's arts and cultural sector, published by the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth. The CSV covers 2013 to 2019 with a year field, an employment type breakdown, and headcounts rounded to the nearest hundred. Arts researchers, cultural policy analysts, and students use it to track how visual arts jobs in Singapore changed across the period. Because figures are rounded, the series suits trend comparison rather than precise headcount reporting.
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth CSV of the annual number of visual arts exhibitions in Singapore from 2013 through 2019. Official notes exclude applied arts such as film, graphic design, jewellery design, and handicrafts. Cultural researchers track exhibition activity in Singapore’s visual arts sector.
Annual counts of members in performing arts interest groups run at Community Clubs (CCs) and Residents’ Committees (RCs) in Singapore, published by the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth from 2013 to 2019. Rows break out year and category so researchers can track grassroots arts participation and community engagement through PA-linked programmes.
Track employment in Singapore’s performing-arts segment of the arts and cultural sector from 2013 through 2019. Published by the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth in CSV format, the dataset reports employment counts by year and type within performing arts, with figures rounded to the nearest hundred as noted in the source metadata. Researchers, arts policymakers, and labour-market analysts can use it to study workforce scale, compare categories over time, and support searches on Singapore performing-arts employment, cultural-sector jobs, and MCCY arts statistics.
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth CSV counting performing-arts interest groups in Singapore Community Clubs and Residents’ Committees from 2013 through 2019. Columns cover year, category, and interest-group counts across the grassroots network. Cultural planners and community researchers track how arts participation organised through CCs and RCs evolved over the decade.
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth CSV of operating receipts in the visual arts segment of Singapore's arts and cultural sector, reported in millions of dollars by year and type from 2013 to 2018. Cultural economists use it to gauge the commercial scale of visual arts businesses; own account workers such as freelancers are excluded.
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth annual CSV counting Singapore’s national monuments from 2013 through 2019. Culture and heritage analysts track designation growth for conservation policy, tourism interpretation, and built-heritage stock monitoring.
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth annual operating receipts in million Singapore dollars for the arts and cultural sector from 2013 through 2018, by art form, excluding own-account workers such as freelancers. Cultural economists assess sector revenue by art-form category.
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth annual CSV of visual arts exhibition days in Singapore from 2013 through 2019. Visual arts cover public exhibitions of painting, sculpture, pottery, ceramics, creative photography, installation, and multimedia art, excluding applied arts such as film and graphic design. Exhibition days sum the duration of all exhibitions. Culture statisticians track exhibition activity intensity.
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth CSV of the number of arts and cultural societies registered with the Registry of Societies in Singapore, by year and art form, from 2015 to 2019. Arts policy researchers track the size and composition of the cultural sector, with the others category covering multi-disciplinary cultural and heritage societies.
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth CSV of nominal value-added (S$ million) for Singapore’s arts and cultural sector from 2013 through 2018 by art form, excluding own-account workers such as freelancers. Cultural-economy analysts measure sector output contributions across art forms.
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth annual CSV of gross takings from ticket sales for performing arts events in Singapore from 2013 through 2019, in million dollars. Performing arts cover folk, traditional, classical, and contemporary dance, music (including pop/rock concerts), and theatre. Cultural economists track live-performance box-office trends.
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth CSV on School of the Arts (SOTA) enrolment by art form from 2013 through 2019. Cultural-education analysts track specialised arts-school student numbers in Singapore.
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth CSV of full-time enrolment in post-graduate arts courses by year and course, covering roughly 2013 through 2019. Cultural policy analysts track tertiary arts training uptake in Singapore’s postgraduate pipeline.
Annual counts of changing exhibitions at Singapore national museums by museum and year, published by the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth in CSV format from 2013 through 2019. Supports cultural programming analysis, museum activity benchmarking, and public engagement research in the heritage sector.