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Economy

Job Vacancy to Unemployed Person Ratio

Data from Feb 1998 to Jun 2024Updated 2 months ago

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

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

Job Vacancies to Unemployed Ratio is calculated by taking the ratio of the estimates of the total number of job vacancies for the whole economy to the total number of unemployed persons. The job vacancies for the whole economy is estimated based on the assumption that private sector establishments each with less than 25 employees have the same vacancy rate as private establishments each with at least 25 employees.

Job vacancy to unemployed ratio by Quarter

Data explorer

JobVacancytoUnemployedPersonRatio.csv (106 rows, 1.5 KB)

Quarter
Text
Job Vacancy to Unemployed Ratio
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
1998-Q11.32
1998-Q20.87
1998-Q30.37
1998-Q40.35
1999-Q10.47
1999-Q20.57
1999-Q30.68
1999-Q40.89
2000-Q10.83
2000-Q20.72

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Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
QuarterquarterText--
Job Vacancy to Unemployed Ratiojv_to_ueNumeric-Ratio
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_25ef6b778f76dfc1fb17a2b0587eff7e"
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). Job Vacancy to Unemployed Person Ratio (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 24, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_25ef6b778f76dfc1fb17a2b0587eff7e/view

About this dataset

Contact

NG_Li_Mei@mom.gov.sg

Created on

22 Mar 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

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