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

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

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Reference month of June
Data exclude unemployed residents without work experience.
Residents refer to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.
Data are classified based on Singapore Standard Occupational Classification (SSOC) 2024. Data before year 2025 which were coded based on earlier versions of the SSOC were mapped to SSOC 2024 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)

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UnemployedResidentsAged15YearsOverWhoWorkedBeforeByAgePreviousOccupationAndSex.csv (1.2K rows, 63.3 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sex Text	Age Text	Previous Occupation 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% others11.1% professionals11.1% clerical support workers11.1% service and sales workers11.1%	(Null)0.0% 09.9% 10011.2% 2006.2% 6004.3%
2010	male	15-29	managers & administrators (including working proprietors)	200
2010	male	15-29	professionals	1400
2010	male	15-29	associate professionals and technicians	2000
2010	male	15-29	clerical support workers	2100
2010	male	15-29	service and sales workers	3000
2010	male	15-29	craftsmen and related trades workers	600
2010	male	15-29	plant and machine operators and assemblers	700
2010	male	15-29	cleaners, labourers and related workers	1200
2010	male	15-29	others	200
2010	male	30-39	managers & administrators (including working proprietors)	1400

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sex	sex	Text	-	-
Age	age	Text	-	-
Previous Occupation	previous_occupation	Text	-	-
Unemployed With Work Experience	unemployed_with_work_experience	Numeric	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_751712fd64b5d061cf3456728734e419"
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). Unemployed Residents Aged 15 Years & Over Who Worked Before By Age, Previous Occupation And Sex (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_751712fd64b5d061cf3456728734e419/view

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