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Economy

Number of Unemployed Citizens, Quarterly

Updated 21 days ago

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Seasonally adjusted data are revised using the latest set of seasonal factors and updated in line with standard seasonal adjustment procedure. The revision is done once a year, taking into account observations for the latest available year.

Source: Labour Force Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM, except data for June 1995, June 2000 and June 2005, which are from the Population Census 2000, General Household Surveys 1995 & 2005 conducted by the Singapore Department of Statistics.

Data explorer

NumberofUnemployedCitizensQuarterly.csv (131 rows, 3.8 KB)

Period Text	Residential Status Text	Seasonally Adj Unemp Text	Non Seasonally Adj Unemp Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% citizen100.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
1992-03	citizen	30400	25200
1992-06	citizen	29500	39100
1992-09	citizen	32300	26900
1992-12	citizen	26900	27200
1993-03	citizen	25800	21400
1993-06	citizen	29100	38700
1993-09	citizen	31500	26000
1993-12	citizen	28700	29100
1994-03	citizen	28700	24600
1994-06	citizen	29100	38600

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Period	period	Text	-	-
Residential Status	residential_status	Text	-	-
Seasonally Adj Unemp	seasonally_adj_unemp	Text	-	-
Non Seasonally Adj Unemp	non_seasonally_adj_unemp	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_832d446094a3f15f813c6755cdc0650f"
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). Number of Unemployed Citizens, Quarterly (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved December 31, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_832d446094a3f15f813c6755cdc0650f/view

About this dataset

Contact

chan_hui_rong@mom.gov.sg ng_mun_yi@mom.gov.sg

Created on

18 Apr 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

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