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Job Vacancy to Unemployed Person Ratio, Annual

Data from Jan 1998 to Jan 2024

Last updated: 19 Mar 2025, 15:42 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

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

Job Vacancies to Unemployed Ratio is calculated by taking the ratio of the estimates of the total number of job vacancies for the whole economy to the total number of unemployed persons. The number of job vacancies for the whole economy is estimated based on the assumption that private sector establishments with less than 25 employees have the same vacancy rate as private establishments with at least 25 employees. Estimates on the total number of unemployed person are obtained from the Labour Force Survey.

Annual figures are the simple averages of the figures obtained at quarterly intervals.

Jv to ue by Year

Data explorer

JobVacancytoUnemployedPersonRatioAnnual.csv (27 rows, 311 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Jv To Ue Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
1998	0.73
1999	0.65
2000	0.94
2001	0.55
2002	0.36
2003	0.27
2004	0.4
2005	0.47
2006	0.66
2007	1.12

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Jv To Ue	jv_to_ue	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_6530db8211d9538872eb7b1f5dd366d0"
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). Job Vacancy to Unemployed Person Ratio, Annual (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 21, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_6530db8211d9538872eb7b1f5dd366d0/view

About this dataset

Contact

NG_Li_Mei@mom.gov.sg

Created on

22 Mar 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)