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Economy

Resident Unemployed Persons Aged 15 Years and Over by Highest Qualification Attained, Marital Status and Sex (Census of Population 2000)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 31/03/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2000

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8973

Last updated 24 days ago (22 Aug 2026)

Updated every 10 years

Data explorer

ResidentUnemployedPersonsAged15YearsandOverbyHighestQualificationAttainedMaritalStatusandSexCensusofPopulation2000.csv (9 rows, 1.3 KB)

Number
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
(Total) Males
Numeric
(Total) Females
Numeric
(Single) Total
Numeric
(Single) Males
Numeric
(Single) Females
Numeric
(Married) Total
Numeric
(Married) Males
Numeric
(Married) Females
Numeric
(Widowed) Total
Numeric
(Widowed) Males
Text
(Widowed) Females
Text
(Divorced/Separated) Total
Numeric
(Divorced/Separated) Males
Numeric
(Divorced/Separated) Females
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)11.1%
(Null)11.1%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total94006523194168741005236501735646614257862082817086511056467922322447
No Qualification13970917947904820362311967320471726036122044081218635583
Primary1368186175063502936781351741444232991343120223895396499
Lower Secondary1476991555614600240171985766846203048263132131836385451
Secondary245661315211414109426056488612134645156833211202011168525644
Upper Secondary7999388241173735175619793928197719511093970227111116
Polytechnic51572533262434741492198215759716042121na864838
Other Diploma395716082349166562310422182933124914na14965343
University9908419357165340240529354392169526972414101527973
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_148dc70f8e28895e25be140e6cf4030c"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Unemployed Persons Aged 15 Years and Over by Highest Qualification Attained, Marital Status and Sex (Census of Population 2000) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 15, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_148dc70f8e28895e25be140e6cf4030c/view

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Created on

26 Oct 2024

Licence

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

Agency

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)