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Employed Residents Aged 15 Years & Over by Occupation, Highest Qualification Attained And Sex

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)
  1. Reference month of June
  2. Residents refer to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.
  3. Data are classified based on Singapore Standard Occupational Classification (SSOC) 2024. Data before year 2025 which were coded based on earlier versions of the SSOC were mapped to SSOC 2024 as far as possible to facilitate data comparability.

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

Data from 2010 to 2025

Last updated 5 months ago (27 Mar 2026)

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EmployedResidentsAged15YearsOverbyOccupationHighestQualificationAttainedAndSex.csv (1.7K rows, 117.9 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Sex
Text
Occupation
Text
Highest Qualification Attained
Text
Employed
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
20106.3%
20116.3%
20126.3%
20136.3%
(Null)0.0%
male50.0%
female50.0%
(Null)0.0%
others11.1%
professionals11.1%
clerical support workers11.1%
service and sales workers11.1%
(Null)0.0%
degree16.7%
secondary16.7%
lower secondary16.7%
primary and below16.7%
(Null)0.0%
2010malemanagers & administrators (including working proprietors)primary and below11000
2010malemanagers & administrators (including working proprietors)lower secondary15300
2010malemanagers & administrators (including working proprietors)secondary35200
2010malemanagers & administrators (including working proprietors)post-secondary (non-tertiary)19500
2010malemanagers & administrators (including working proprietors)diploma and professional qualification41400
2010malemanagers & administrators (including working proprietors)degree110300
2010maleprofessionalsprimary and below1100
2010maleprofessionalslower secondary1900
2010maleprofessionalssecondary9900
2010maleprofessionalspost-secondary (non-tertiary)8000
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_576bb1f46eabb041d8d966030170ec6f"
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. (2026). Employed Residents Aged 15 Years & Over by Occupation, Highest Qualification Attained And Sex (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_576bb1f46eabb041d8d966030170ec6f/view

About this dataset

Contact

ng_mun_yi@mom.gov.sgbrian_pang@mom.gov.sg

Created on

27 Mar 2026

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)