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Employed Residents Aged 15 Years & Over by Industry, Highest Qualification Attained And Sex

Data from Jan 2010 to Jan 2025

Last updated: 27 Mar 2026, 18:16 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)
  1. Reference month of June
  2. Residents refer to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.
  3. Data are classified based on Singapore Standard Industrial Classification (SSIC) 2020. Data before year 2020 which were coded based on earlier versions of the SSIC were mapped to SSIC 2020 as far as possible to facilitate data comparability.

Source: Comprehensive Labour Force Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM

Data explorer

EmployedResidentsAged15YearsOverbyIndustryHighestQualificationAttainedAndSex.csv (2.9K rows, 208.8 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Sex
Text
Industry1
Text
Industry2
Text
Highest Qualification Attained
Text
Employed
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
20106.3%
20116.3%
20126.3%
20136.3%
(Null)0.0%
male50.0%
female50.0%
(Null)0.0%
services80.0%
others6.7%
construction6.7%
manufacturing6.7%
(Null)0.0%
others6.7%
construction6.7%
manufacturing6.7%
real estate services6.7%
(Null)0.0%
degree16.7%
secondary16.7%
lower secondary16.7%
primary and below16.7%
(Null)0.0%
9001.2%
11001.2%
18001.1%
20001.3%
2010malemanufacturingmanufacturingprimary and below20900
2010malemanufacturingmanufacturinglower secondary14700
2010malemanufacturingmanufacturingsecondary28200
2010malemanufacturingmanufacturingpost-secondary (non-tertiary)24300
2010malemanufacturingmanufacturingdiploma and professional qualification40600
2010malemanufacturingmanufacturingdegree57500
2010maleconstructionconstructionprimary and below17000
2010maleconstructionconstructionlower secondary12800
2010maleconstructionconstructionsecondary15500
2010maleconstructionconstructionpost-secondary (non-tertiary)7700
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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. 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
          
dataset_id = "d_1fb424886ad6498b8805e0b7299c4d6d"
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. (2026). Employed Residents Aged 15 Years & Over by Industry, Highest Qualification Attained And Sex (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 29, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_1fb424886ad6498b8805e0b7299c4d6d/view

About this dataset

Contact

ng_mun_yi@mom.gov.sgbrian_pang@mom.gov.sg

Created on

27 Mar 2026

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)