Residents Outside the Labour Force by Highest Qualification Attained, Age And Sex

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Residents Outside the Labour Force by Highest Qualification Attained, Age And Sex

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Reference month of June
Residents refer to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.
Data for 1995, 2000 and 2005 are not available as the Comprehensive Labour Force Survey was not conducted in these years due to the conduct of the Population Census 2000 and General Household Surveys 1995 and 2005 by the Singapore Department of Statistics.
2007 data have been adjusted based on latest revised population estimates from the Singapore Department of Statistics to facilitate comparisons with 2008 onwards.

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

Data from 1991 to 2025

Last updated 5 months ago (27 Mar 2026)

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ResidentsOutsidetheLabourForcebyHighestQualificationAttainedAgeAndSex.csv (4.6K rows, 195.2 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sex Text	Highest Qualification Text	Age Text	Outside The Labour Force Numeric
(Null)0.0% 19913.1% 19923.1% 19933.1% 19943.1%	(Null)0.0% male50.0% female50.0%	(Null)0.0% degree16.7% secondary16.7% lower secondary16.7% primary and below16.7%	(Null)0.0% 15-198.3% 20-248.3% 25-298.3% 30-348.3%	(Null)0.0% 3003.3% 4003.4% 5003.2% 6003.1%
1991	male	primary and below	15-19	7000
1991	male	primary and below	20-24	1000
1991	male	primary and below	25-29	1100
1991	male	primary and below	30-34	1100
1991	male	primary and below	35-39	600
1991	male	primary and below	40-44	1000
1991	male	primary and below	45-49	1600
1991	male	primary and below	50-54	3300
1991	male	primary and below	55-59	10200
1991	male	primary and below	60-64	18200

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sex	sex	Text	-	-
Highest Qualification	highest_qualification	Text	-	-
Age	age	Text	-	-
Outside The Labour Force	outside_labour_force	Numeric	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_67b046947152332da235ad4353673a37"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Ministry of Manpower. (2026). Residents Outside the Labour Force by Highest Qualification Attained, Age And Sex (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_67b046947152332da235ad4353673a37/view

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