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Economy

Employment Change By Industry (Level3)

Data from Jan 1991 to Dec 2022Updated 11 months ago

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Source: Administrative Records and Labour Force Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM

Notes:

  1. Data are primarily from administrative records, with the self-employed component estimated from the Labour Force Survey.

  2. Change in employment is the difference in the employment level at the end of the reference period compared with the end of the preceding period.

Data explorer

EmploymentChangeByIndustryLevel3.csv (910 rows, 69.7 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Industry1
Text
Industry2
Text
Industry3
Text
Employment Change
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)1.0%
1991othersothersothers-0.1
1991constructionconstructionconstruction17.7
1991manufacturingfood, beverages and tobaccofood, beverages and tobacco0.1
1991manufacturingtextile and wearing appareltextile and wearing apparel-2.4
1991manufacturingpaper products and publishingpaper products and publishing0.8
1991manufacturingpetroleum, chemical, rubber and plastic productspetroleum, chemical, rubber and plastic products1.3
1991manufacturingfabricated metal productsfabricated metal products0.1
1991manufacturingmachinery and equipmentmachinery and equipment1.2
1991manufacturingelectrical productselectrical products-0.6
1991manufacturingelectronic productselectronic products-5.5

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
Industry1industry1Text--
Industry2industry2Text--
Industry3industry3Text--
Employment Changeemployment_changeNumericIn Thousands-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_49ba591f0cd08354853acbea812dd0b8"
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.

Ministry of Manpower. (2018). Employment Change By Industry (Level3) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved May 9, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_49ba591f0cd08354853acbea812dd0b8/view

About this dataset

Contact

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Created on

07 Aug 2018

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)