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Economy

Total Foreign Workforce

Data from Dec 2017 to Dec 2022Updated 6 months ago

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Data explorer

TotalForeignWorkforce.csv (6 rows, 124 B)

Month
Month (YYYY-MM)
Count
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2017-121,368,000
2018-121,386,000
2019-121,427,500
2020-121,231,500
2021-121200400
2022-121424200

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
MonthmonthMonth (YYYY-MM)--
CountcountText-No. of people
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_5105c8c24199312306d1dd38bbc560a8"
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. (2019). Total Foreign Workforce (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 24, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_5105c8c24199312306d1dd38bbc560a8/view

About this dataset

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Created on

16 Jul 2019

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

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