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Unemployed Residents Aged 15 Years & Over Who Worked Before By Age, Previous Industry And Sex

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)
  1. Reference month of June
  2. Data exclude unemployed residents without work experience.
  3. Residents refer to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.
  4. Data are classified based on Singapore Standard Industrial Classification (SSIC) 2020. Data before year 2020 which were coded based on earlier versions of the SSIC were mapped to SSIC 2020 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 (23 Mar 2026)

Data explorer

UnemployedResidentsAged15YearsOverWhoWorkedBeforeByAgePreviousIndustryAndSex.csv (1.9K rows, 113.6 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Sex
Text
Age
Text
Previous Industry1
Text
Previous Industry2
Text
Unemployed With Work Experience
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
20106.3%
20116.3%
20126.3%
20136.3%
(Null)0.0%
male50.0%
female50.0%
(Null)0.0%
15-2925.0%
30-3925.0%
40-4925.0%
50 and over25.0%
(Null)0.0%
services80.0%
others6.7%
construction6.7%
manufacturing6.7%
(Null)0.0%
others6.7%
construction6.7%
manufacturing6.7%
real estate services6.7%
(Null)0.0%
10012.4%
2009.6%
4009.3%
5008.2%
2010male15-29manufacturingmanufacturing1200
2010male15-29constructionconstruction300
2010male15-29serviceswholesale and retail trade2100
2010male15-29servicestransportation and storage600
2010male15-29servicesaccommodation and food services1800
2010male15-29servicesinformation and communications1000
2010male15-29servicesfinancial and insurance services1100
2010male15-29servicesreal estate services200
2010male15-29servicesprofessional services600
2010male15-29servicesadministrative and support services800
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_5c869e069359247fc9d518eeeb3a32b0"
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). Unemployed Residents Aged 15 Years & Over Who Worked Before By Age, Previous Industry And Sex (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_5c869e069359247fc9d518eeeb3a32b0/view

About this dataset

Contact

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

Created on

23 Mar 2026

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)