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

Data from Jan 2010 to Jan 2025

Last updated: 27 Mar 2026, 18:06 SGT

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 explorer

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

Column legend

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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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

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())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Ministry of Manpower. (2026). Employed Residents Aged 15 Years & Over by Occupation, Employment Status And Sex (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 6, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_3ba99a6cc9f643bacb63bdab296d7bff/view

About this dataset

Contact

brian_pang@mom.gov.sg ng_mun_yi@mom.gov.sg

Created on

27 Mar 2026

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)