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Resident Unemployment Rate By Age, Highest Qualification Attained And Sex

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Reference month of June
Residents refer to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.

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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ResidentUnemploymentRateByAgeHighestQualificationAttainedAndSex.csv (768 rows, 32.6 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sex Text	Age Text	Highest Qualification Attained Text	Non-Seasonally Adj Unemployment Rate Numeric (Percentage)
(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% degree16.7% secondary16.7% lower secondary16.7% primary and below16.7%	(Null)0.0%
2010	male	15-29	primary and below	21.7
2010	male	15-29	lower secondary	14.9
2010	male	15-29	secondary	8.7
2010	male	15-29	post-secondary (non-tertiary)	5.8
2010	male	15-29	diploma and professional qualification	5.1
2010	male	15-29	degree	6.2
2010	male	30-39	primary and below	10
2010	male	30-39	lower secondary	6.1
2010	male	30-39	secondary	4
2010	male	30-39	post-secondary (non-tertiary)	4

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sex	sex	Text	-	-
Age	age	Text	-	-
Highest Qualification Attained	highest_qualification_attained	Text	-	-
Non-Seasonally Adj Unemployment Rate	nsa_unemployment_rate	Numeric (Percentage)	percent	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_79699e0bd51d2d8cee7fb3f6d29dc7c4"
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. (2026). Resident Unemployment Rate By Age, Highest Qualification Attained And Sex (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 1, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_79699e0bd51d2d8cee7fb3f6d29dc7c4/view

About this dataset

Contact

ng_mun_yi@mom.gov.sg brian_pang@mom.gov.sg

Created on

23 Mar 2026

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)