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Economy

Number of Unemployed Citizens, Annual

Data from Jan 1992 to Jan 2023Updated 6 months ago

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Annual figures are the simple averages of the non-seasonally adjusted unemployment figures obtained at quarterly intervals.

Source: Labour Force Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM, except data for June 1995, June 2000 and June 2005, which are from the Population Census 2000, General Household Surveys 1995 & 2005 conducted by the Singapore Department of Statistics.

Number of Unemployed Citizens, Annual

Data explorer

NumberofUnemployedCitizensAnnual.csv (32 rows, 643 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Residential Status
Text
Unemployed
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
citizen100.0%
(Null)0.0%
1992citizen29600
1993citizen28800
1994citizen30300
1995citizen31300
1996citizen31600
1997citizen29400
1998citizen52100
1999citizen57900
2000citizen55900
2001citizen57900

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
Residential Statusresidential_statusText--
UnemployedunemployedNumeric--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_50282116825d85bfa0e971557196f2cf"
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). Number of Unemployed Citizens, Annual (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 23, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_50282116825d85bfa0e971557196f2cf/view

About this dataset

Contact

ng_mun_yi@mom.gov.sgchan_hui_rong@mom.gov.sg

Created on

12 Apr 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

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