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Average Weekly Paid Hours Worked Per Employee by Industry and Type of Employment (Level 1)

Data from Jan 1998 to Jan 2023Updated 6 months ago

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 one decimal place.

Data may not be strictly comparable due to the various versions of SSIC coding.

Total paid hours by Year

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AverageWeeklyPaidHoursWorkedPerEmployeebyIndustryandTypeofEmploymentLevel1.csv (312 rows, 12.7 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Industry1
Text
Nature Of Employment
Text
Total Paid Hours
Text
Standard Hours
Text
Overtime of all employees
Text
Overtime of employees who worked overtime
Text
(Null)0.0%
19983.8%
19993.8%
20003.8%
20013.8%
(Null)0.0%
others25.0%
services25.0%
construction25.0%
manufacturing25.0%
(Null)0.0%
all33.3%
full-time33.3%
part-time33.3%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)6.7%
(Null)0.3%
1998manufacturingall48.542.85.710.4
1998manufacturingfull-time48.843.15.810.4
1998manufacturingpart-time22.421.90.55.6
1998constructionall51.644.86.813.2
1998constructionfull-time51.844.96.913.2
1998constructionpart-time21.321.20.17.8
1998servicesall43.741.81.97.6
1998servicesfull-time44.642.627.7
1998servicespart-time22.922.60.33
1998othersall50.244.65.612.3

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
Industry1industry1Text--
Nature Of Employmentnature_of_employmentText--
Total Paid Hourstotal_paid_hoursText-hour
Standard Hoursstandard_hoursText-hour
Overtime of all employeesovertime_of_all_employeesText-hour
Overtime of employees who worked overtimeovertime_of_employees_who_worked_overtimeText-hour
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_651ae614a9a75fd1907d281e55d5b954"
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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Ministry of Manpower. (2016). Average Weekly Paid Hours Worked Per Employee by Industry and Type of Employment (Level 1) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 21, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_651ae614a9a75fd1907d281e55d5b954/view

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Created on

31 May 2016

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

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MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

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