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Economy

Resident Unemployed Persons Aged 15 Years and Over by Highest Qualification Attained, Action Taken to Look for Work and Sex (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/8819

Last updated 26 days ago (20 Aug 2026)

Updated every 10 years

Data explorer

ResidentUnemployedPersonsAged15YearsandOverbyHighestQualificationAttainedActionTakentoLookforWorkandSexGeneralHouseholdSurvey2005.csv (9 rows, 1.4 KB)

Number
Text
(Total) Total
Numeric
(Total) Males
Numeric
(Total) Females
Numeric
(Answered Advertisements) Total
Numeric
(Answered Advertisements) Males
Numeric
(Answered Advertisements) Females
Numeric
(Asked Friends/Relatives) Total
Numeric
(Asked Friends/Relatives) Males
Numeric
(Asked Friends/Relatives) Females
Numeric
(Registered With Employment Agencies) Total
Numeric
(Registered With Employment Agencies) Males
Numeric
(Registered With Employment Agencies) Females
Numeric
(Others) Total
Numeric
(Others) Males
Numeric
(Others) Females
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total975135020247311571632816329000218871273491546946282341231151764825034
No Qualification92565707354937152235148044842752173222314281834578256
Primary11364655048135436300724294398267417244492062431081663418
Lower Secondary14571818063918435442740083931241415178104253841395913482
Secondary243041197612327150057229777648612652220917505731178268715231164
Upper Secondary10668542252466401322131791847107477310774256521343702641
Polytechnic775239553797511825422575823558265896354542915501414
Other Diploma482721902637304613241722509334175562186376710346364
University1477262218552100074177583110362767591179512667255012551295
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_42ab3cbb097fcb060471180979e2a986"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Unemployed Persons Aged 15 Years and Over by Highest Qualification Attained, Action Taken to Look for Work and Sex (General Household Survey 2005) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 15, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_42ab3cbb097fcb060471180979e2a986/view

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Created on

24 Oct 2024

Licence

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

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SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)