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Economy

Resident Unemployed Persons Aged 15 Years and Over Who Worked Before by Main Reason for Leaving Last Job and Highest Qualification Attained (General Household Survey 2005)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 29/03/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: General Household Survey 2005

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8830

Last updated 26 days ago (20 Aug 2026)

Updated every 10 years

Data explorer

ResidentUnemployedPersonsAged15YearsandOverWhoWorkedBeforebyMainReasonforLeavingLastJobandHighestQualificationAttainedGeneralHouseholdSurvey2005.csv (15 rows, 904 B)

Number
Text
Total
Numeric
Below Secondary
Numeric
Secondary
Numeric
Post-Secondary*
Numeric
University
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)6.7%
Total8553931530221301978512093
Retirement2308946617515230
Completion Of Contract/Job85153381173021651240
Retrenchment141315855401329801284
Cessation Of Business6404300017101073621
Dismissal1630849520261na
Illness/Injury/Accident31641726829506103
Pay Too Low28231334652623214
Poor Career Prospects76731458167727151823
Long Hours/Work Too Demanding416517091132891434
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_2e6aefec667ce200f5a187fa04f6ad00"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Unemployed Persons Aged 15 Years and Over Who Worked Before by Main Reason for Leaving Last Job and Highest Qualification Attained (General Household Survey 2005) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 15, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_2e6aefec667ce200f5a187fa04f6ad00/view

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Created on

26 Oct 2024

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

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)