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Median Age of Resident Labour Force (Total)

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Median Age of Resident Labour Force (Total)

Data from Jan 1991 to Jan 2023Updated 11 months ago

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)
  1. Reference month of June
  2. Residents refer to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.
  3. Data for 1995, 2000 and 2005 are not available as the Comprehensive Labour Force Survey was not conducted in these years due to the conduct of the Population Census 2000 and General Household Surveys 1995 and 2005 by the Singapore Department of Statistics.
  4. 2007 data have been adjusted based on latest revised population estimates from the Singapore Department of Statistics to facilitate comparisons with 2008 onwards.

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

Data explorer

MedianAgeofResidentLabourForceTotal.csv (30 rows, 256 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Median Age
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
199134
199234
199335
199435
199636
199737
199837
199938
200138
200239

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
Median Agemedian_ageNumeric--
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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_46af1652b0268f90adedf81eec11f725"
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. (2016). Median Age of Resident Labour Force (Total) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 29, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_46af1652b0268f90adedf81eec11f725/view

About this dataset

Contact

chan_hui_rong@mom.gov.sgng_mun_yi@mom.gov.sg

Created on

14 Apr 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)