Job Vacancy Rate by Industry and Occupational Group, Quarterly

Last updated: 19 Mar 2025, 13:36 SGT

Source: Labour Market Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM

Job Vacancy refers to the number of unfilled posts for which an establishment is actively recruiting employees from outside the establishment. They exclude

a) Positions for which the employees have been appointed, but have not yet commenced duty; b) Positions open only to internal transfers, promotion.

Recruitment action to fill a post includes advertising in newspapers, posting notices on the internet (e.g. on online job banks), making word-of-mouth announcements, soliciting employees through employment agencies or job fairs, contacting or interviewing registered job applicants.

Before 2006, data on job vacancies pertain to private sector establishments each with at least 25 employees. From 2006 onwards, data also include the public sector. A new methodology was also introduced in Q1 2010 to improve the estimation of job vacancies. Data spanning back to 2006 have been revised using this methodology.

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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the metadata for this collection. 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
          
collection_id = 690          
url = "https://api-production.data.gov.sg/v2/public/api/collections/{}/metadata".format(collection_id)
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())