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.
Official description
The Singapore Cultural Statistics (SCS) reports administrative data and statistics on arts and cultural activities in Singapore
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth CSV of full-time enrolment in diploma arts courses in Singapore by year and course from 2013 to 2019. Arts education researchers track the pipeline of arts and design talent, with graduate diploma arts students counted within the diploma figures.
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth CSV of visitorship to Singapore’s national museums and heritage institutions from 2013 through 2019. Columns cover year, museum or institution name, and visitor counts. Cultural-policy and tourism analysts track attendance trends across major heritage venues.
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth CSV of nominal value-added in million Singapore dollars for the performing-arts segment of the arts and cultural sector from 2013 through 2018, by type. Own-account workers such as freelancers are excluded. Cultural-economy researchers measure the contribution of performing arts to Singapore's arts sector over that period.
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth CSV of arts and cultural companies in Singapore by art form from 2015 through 2019, counting commercial and non-profit firms registered with ACRA at year-end. Coverage includes content creation and distribution, retail of musical and photographic equipment, arts instruction, and multi-disciplinary cultural or heritage firms. Cultural-economy analysts track the size of the arts company base by art form.
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth CSV enrolment counts for full-time tertiary arts courses from 2013 through 2019, by year and qualification level. Education planners and arts-policy researchers track pipeline size for diploma and degree arts training in Singapore, including graduate diploma students in diploma totals.
Annual contributions to arts and culture in millions of Singapore dollars, published by the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth in CSV from 2013 through 2019. Based on Patron of the Arts and Patron of Heritage Awards data, the series supports cultural funding analysis and philanthropy monitoring.
Number of performing arts courses conducted at Community Clubs and Residents’ Committees in Singapore, reported annually by the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth from 2013 to 2019 by year and category. Complements membership tables to show programme supply in grassroots arts education and community cultural programming.
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth annual CSV of students participating in music-related co-curricular activities from 2013 to 2019. Coverage includes primary and secondary schools, junior colleges, and centralised institutes, with counts by activity type. Education and culture analysts can monitor student participation in music.
Annual participant counts for performing arts courses run by Community Clubs and Residents’ Committees in Singapore, published by the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth in CSV format from 2013 through 2019. Broken down by course category, the series supports grassroots arts participation research, community programming evaluation, and MCCY cultural outreach monitoring.
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth annual CSV of ticketed attendance at performing-arts events from 2013 to 2019. It covers folk, traditional, classical, and contemporary dance, music—including pop and rock concerts—and theatre, counting both sold and complimentary tickets. Cultural analysts can track paid-event audience demand.
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth CSV of tickets sold for performing arts events in Singapore from 2013 through 2019 by art form—covering folk, traditional, classical, and contemporary dance, music (including pop/rock concerts), and theatre. Venue and cultural-economy analysts measure audience demand across performing-arts genres.
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth CSV of student participation in arts-related visual arts co-curricular activities from 2013 through 2019, covering primary and secondary schools, junior colleges, and centralised institutes. Culture policymakers track youth engagement in visual arts CCAs.
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth annual CSV of Museum Roundtable member counts in Singapore from 2013 through 2019 by year and category. Heritage planners track how the NHB-chaired invitation network of museums and galleries grew over that period.
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth CSV recording annual visitorship to museums under Singapore's Museum Roundtable from 2013 to 2019. Each row pairs a year with the total number of visits across member museums and heritage institutions. Arts administrators, cultural policy researchers and tourism analysts can use the series to track public engagement with Singapore's museum sector and benchmark attendance trends over the period.
Operating receipts of Singapore’s performing arts sector by organisation type and year, published by the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth in CSV format from 2013 through 2018 in millions of dollars. Excludes own-account workers such as freelancers per source notes. Supports arts economy research and revenue trend analysis for live performance industries.
Employment levels in Singapore’s arts and cultural sector by art form and year, published by the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth in CSV format from 2013 through 2019. Figures are rounded to the nearest hundred as noted in the source. Supports cultural workforce analysis, sector recovery benchmarking, and research on creative industry employment trends.
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth CSV of full-time enrolment in undergraduate arts courses in Singapore from 2013 through 2019 by course. Education and cultural workforce planners track tertiary arts training capacity and student demand across programmes.
Annual counts of international engagements supported by the National Arts Council to promote Singapore arts overseas, published by the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth in CSV format from 2013 through 2019. Researchers and cultural policymakers can track outbound arts development grants, internationalisation efforts, and MCCY cultural diplomacy programming over time.