Employed Residents Aged 15 Years & Over by Occupation, Employment Status And Sex

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Employed Residents Aged 15 Years & Over by Occupation, Employment Status And Sex

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Reference month of June
Residents refer to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.
Data are classified based on Singapore Standard Occupational Classification (SSOC) 2024. Data before year 2025 which were coded based on earlier versions of the SSOC were mapped to SSOC 2024 as far as possible to facilitate data comparability.

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

Data from 2010 to 2025

Last updated 5 months ago (27 Mar 2026)

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EmployedResidentsAged15YearsOverbyOccupationEmploymentStatusAndSex.csv (1.2K rows, 74.6 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sex Text	Occupation Text	Employment Status Text	Employed Numeric
(Null)0.0% 20106.3% 20116.3% 20126.3% 20136.3%	(Null)0.0% male50.0% female50.0%	(Null)0.0% others11.1% professionals11.1% clerical support workers11.1% service and sales workers11.1%	(Null)0.0% employees25.0% employers25.0% own account workers25.0% contributing family workers25.0%	(Null)0.0%
2010	male	managers & administrators (including working proprietors)	employers	58000
2010	male	managers & administrators (including working proprietors)	employees	151200
2010	male	managers & administrators (including working proprietors)	own account workers	23000
2010	male	managers & administrators (including working proprietors)	contributing family workers	500
2010	male	professionals	employers	8000
2010	male	professionals	employees	188600
2010	male	professionals	own account workers	10700
2010	male	professionals	contributing family workers	200
2010	male	associate professionals and technicians	employers	3700
2010	male	associate professionals and technicians	employees	143700

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sex	sex	Text	-	-
Occupation	occupation	Text	-	-
Employment Status	employment_status	Text	-	-
Employed	employed	Numeric	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_3ba99a6cc9f643bacb63bdab296d7bff"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Ministry of Manpower. (2026). Employed Residents Aged 15 Years & Over by Occupation, Employment Status And Sex (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_3ba99a6cc9f643bacb63bdab296d7bff/view

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EmployedResidentsAged15YearsOverbyOccupationEmploymentStatusAndSex.csv (1.2K rows, 74.6 KB)

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