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Economy

Number of Overall Unemployed, Quarterly

Updated 16 days ago

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Seasonally adjusted data are revised using the latest set of seasonal factors and updated in line with standard seasonal adjustment procedure. The revision is done once a year, taking into account observations for the latest available year.

Source: Labour Force Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM, except data for June 1995, June 2000 and June 2005, which are from the Population Census 2000, General Household Surveys 1995 & 2005 conducted by the Singapore Department of Statistics.

Data explorer

NumberofOverallUnemployedQuarterly.csv (131 rows, 3.8 KB)

Period Text	Residential Status Text	Seasonally adjusted unemployed Text	Non Seasonally Adj Unemp Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% overall100.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
1992-03	overall	31600	26300
1992-06	overall	31100	41500
1992-09	overall	34900	28400
1992-12	overall	28400	28700
1993-03	overall	26300	21800
1993-06	overall	31200	41600
1993-09	overall	32900	26500
1993-12	overall	29700	30200
1994-03	overall	30700	26200
1994-06	overall	30900	41000

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Period	period	Text	-	-
Residential Status	residential_status	Text	-	-
Seasonally adjusted unemployed	seasonally_adj_unemp	Text	-	-
Non Seasonally Adj Unemp	non_seasonally_adj_unemp	Text	-	-

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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_202a149882ce784f4499175380c9126b"
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. (2016). Number of Overall Unemployed, Quarterly (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 21, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_202a149882ce784f4499175380c9126b/view

About this dataset

Contact

ng_mun_yi@mom.gov.sg chan_hui_rong@mom.gov.sg

Created on

18 Apr 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

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