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Unemployment Topline Indicators, Annual And Quarterly

Number of Overall Unemployed, Annual

Economy

Number of Overall Unemployed, Annual

Data from Jan 1992 to Jan 2023Updated 10 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 Overall Unemployed, Annual

Data explorer

NumberofOverallUnemployedAnnual.csv (32 rows, 644 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Residential Status
Text
Unemployed
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
overall100.0%
(Null)0.0%
1992overall31200
1993overall30000
1994overall32100
1995overall33200
1996overall34000
1997overall30900
1998overall55100
1999overall61900
2000overall60500
2001overall62400

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
Residential Statusresidential_statusText--
UnemployedunemployedNumeric--
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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_50b7699d8627c64ce6e9d400bd05d070"
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 Overall Unemployed, Annual (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved March 20, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_50b7699d8627c64ce6e9d400bd05d070/view

About this dataset

Contact

chan_hui_rong@mom.gov.sgng_mun_yi@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)