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Economy

Unemployed Residents Aged 15 Years and Over by Marital Status, Age and Sex

Data from Jan 2010 to Jan 2023

Last updated: 15 Jul 2024, 17:38 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Reference month of June
Residents refer to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.

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

Data explorer

UnemployedResidentsAged15YearsandOverbyMaritalStatusAgeandSex.csv (336 rows, 11.7 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sex Text	Age Text	Marital Status Text	Unemployed Text
(Null)0.0% 20107.1% 20117.1% 20127.1% 20137.1%	(Null)0.0% male50.0% female50.0%	(Null)0.0% 15-2925.0% 30-3925.0% 40-4925.0% 50 and over25.0%	(Null)0.0% single33.3% married33.3% widowed / divorced33.3%	(Null)2.4%
2010	male	15-29	single	13800
2010	male	15-29	married	900
2010	male	15-29	widowed / divorced	-
2010	male	30-39	single	4100
2010	male	30-39	married	4500
2010	male	30-39	widowed / divorced	300
2010	male	40-49	single	3000
2010	male	40-49	married	5200
2010	male	40-49	widowed / divorced	600
2010	male	50 and over	single	2600

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sex	sex	Text	-	-
Age	age	Text	-	-
Marital Status	marital_status	Text	-	-
Unemployed	unemployed	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_3a5d969e952701de0dac3305d06611fa"
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. (2024). Unemployed Residents Aged 15 Years and Over by Marital Status, Age and Sex (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 30, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_3a5d969e952701de0dac3305d06611fa/view

About this dataset

Contact

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

Created on

15 Jul 2024

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)