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Number of Overall Unemployed, Quarterly

Last updated: 10 Dec 2024, 17:52 SGT

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 Adj Unemp
Text
Non Seasonally Adj Unemp
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
overall100.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
1992-03overall3160026300
1992-06overall3110041500
1992-09overall3490028400
1992-12overall2840028700
1993-03overall2630021800
1993-06overall3120041600
1993-09overall3290026500
1993-12overall2970030200
1994-03overall3070026200
1994-06overall3090041000

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
PeriodperiodText--
Residential Statusresidential_statusText--
Seasonally Adj Unempseasonally_adj_unempText--
Non Seasonally Adj Unempnon_seasonally_adj_unempText--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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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 July 5, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_202a149882ce784f4499175380c9126b/view

About this dataset

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)