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Employed Residents Aged 15 Years & Over by Highest Qualification Attained, Age And Sex

Data from Jan 2010 to Jan 2025

Last updated: 27 Mar 2026, 18:29 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

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

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

Data explorer

EmployedResidentsAged15YearsOverbyHighestQualificationAttainedAgeAndSex.csv (2.3K rows, 98.8 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sex Text	Highest Qualification Attained Text	Age Text	Employed Numeric
(Null)0.0% 20106.3% 20116.3% 20126.3% 20136.3%	(Null)0.0% male50.0% female50.0%	(Null)0.0% degree16.7% secondary16.7% lower secondary16.7% primary and below16.7%	(Null)0.0% 15-198.3% 20-248.3% 25-298.3% 30-348.3%	(Null)0.0%
2010	male	primary and below	15-19	200
2010	male	primary and below	20-24	600
2010	male	primary and below	25-29	1000
2010	male	primary and below	30-34	2800
2010	male	primary and below	35-39	6400
2010	male	primary and below	40-44	13500
2010	male	primary and below	45-49	25300
2010	male	primary and below	50-54	30600
2010	male	primary and below	55-59	25300
2010	male	primary and below	60-64	19800

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sex	sex	Text	-	-
Highest Qualification Attained	highest_qualification_attained	Text	-	-
Age	age	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_43d20c60e5071dfd367d26883f58fdf5"
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 Highest Qualification Attained, Age And Sex (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 29, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_43d20c60e5071dfd367d26883f58fdf5/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)