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Economy

Resident Unemployed Persons Aged 15 Years and Over by Highest Qualification Attained, Action Taken to Look for Work and Sex (Census of Population 2000)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 31/03/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: Census of Population 2000

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8972

Last updated 18 days ago (22 Aug 2026)

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ResidentUnemployedPersonsAged15YearsandOverbyHighestQualificationAttainedActionTakentoLookforWorkandSexCensusofPopulation2000.csv (9 rows, 1.4 KB)

Number
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(Total) Total
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(Total) Males
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(Total) Females
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(Employment Service) Total
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(Employment Service) Males
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(Employment Service) Females
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(Advertisements/Wrote In) Total
Numeric
(Advertisements/Wrote In) Males
Numeric
(Advertisements/Wrote In) Females
Numeric
(Asked Friends Or Relatives) Total
Numeric
(Asked Friends Or Relatives) Males
Numeric
(Asked Friends Or Relatives) Females
Numeric
(Others) Total
Numeric
(Others) Males
Numeric
(Others) Females
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
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(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total940065231941687441718852533561052946726638229701493080401051360374476
No Qualification1397091794790386267119564734672179695448292125983616367
Primary13681861750633411931487033415228815109350016091198772425
Lower Secondary14769915556144622502128863516536994047285811891396882515
Secondary24566131521141412355247111651885957924425825481710255414851069
Upper Secondary79993882411762423339049512368258312666596071158622536
Polytechnic515725332624383125258376318461917346182164664379285
Other Diploma39571608234931550265254610431503362151211734364370
University9908419357166712424296783283139526272024251827917910
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_61d5f9e9c1d128397bf498b49c3f4005"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Unemployed Persons Aged 15 Years and Over by Highest Qualification Attained, Action Taken to Look for Work and Sex (Census of Population 2000) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_61d5f9e9c1d128397bf498b49c3f4005/view

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Created on

26 Oct 2024

Licence

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

Agency

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)