Number of Long-term Unemployed Residents, Annual

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Number of Long-term Unemployed Residents, Annual

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Data refer to the annual average number of long-term unemployed residents. Residents refer to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents. Long-term unemployed refers to persons aged fifteen years and over who have been unemployed for at least 25 weeks. Annual figures are the simple averages of unemployment figures obtained at quarterly intervals. 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 from 1992 to 2025

Last updated 5 months ago (20 Mar 2026)

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NumberofLongtermUnemployedResidentsAnnual.csv (33 rows, 732 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Residential Status Text	Long Term Unemployed Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% resident100.0%	(Null)0.0%
1992	resident	4200
1993	resident	4200
1994	resident	4500
1995	resident	4000
1996	resident	5600
1997	resident	5600
1998	resident	12000
1999	resident	18100
2001	resident	15300
2002	resident	23400

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Residential Status	residential_status	Text	-	-
Long Term Unemployed	long_term_unemployed	Numeric	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_8872e15c61a2ee8dde0e5f7e6f48d718"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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NumberofLongtermUnemployedResidentsAnnual.csv (33 rows, 732 B)

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