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Short Work-Week & Temporary Layoffs By Industry And Occupational Group, Quarterly

Short Work-Week And Temporary Layoffs - Topline

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Short Work-Week And Temporary Layoffs - Topline

Data from Jan 1998 to Dec 2024

Last updated: 19 Mar 2025, 14:05 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Source: Labour Market Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM ​

Before 2006, the Labour Market Survey covers private sector establishments each with at least 25 employees. From 2006 onwards, the survey also covers the public sector.

Data are rounded to the nearest 10. Hence, they may not add up to the total.

Total by Quarter

Data explorer

ShortWorkWeekAndTemporaryLayoffsTopline.csv (108 rows, 2.3 KB)

Quarter
Quarter (Q)
Total
Text
Short Work Week
Text
Temporary Layoff
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)1.9%
1998-Q118001610190
1998-Q265505730810
1998-Q346504050600
1998-Q4481033701450
1999-Q1680580110
1999-Q299095040
1999-Q31050930120
1999-Q4470250220
2000-Q1530340190
2000-Q2740550190

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
QuarterquarterQuarter (Q)--
TotaltotalText--
Short Work Weekshort_work_weekText--
Temporary Layofftemporary_layoffText--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_54fa99c2cd6a9cd50a0a4782212ec25f"
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). Short Work-Week And Temporary Layoffs - Topline (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 18, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_54fa99c2cd6a9cd50a0a4782212ec25f/view

About this dataset

Contact

NG_Li_Mei@mom.gov.sg

Created on

15 Apr 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)