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Resident Unemployment Rate, Annual

Data from Jan 1992 to Jan 2023Updated 5 months ago

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)
  1. Residents refer to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.
  2. Annual figures are the simple averages of the non-seasonally adjusted unemployment figures obtained at quarterly intervals.

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 Department of Statistics.

Resident Unemployment Rate, Annual

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ResidentUnemploymentRateAnnual.csv (32 rows, 612 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Residential Status
Text
Unemployment Rate
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
resident100.0%
(Null)0.0%
1992resident2.2
1993resident2.1
1994resident2.2
1995resident2.2
1996resident2.2
1997resident2
1998resident3.5
1999resident3.8
2000resident3.7
2001resident3.7

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
Residential Statusresidential_statusText--
Unemployment Rateunemployment_rateNumeric--
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_8a806a11f7b8807441f967a824fa578e"
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). Resident Unemployment Rate, Annual (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 6, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_8a806a11f7b8807441f967a824fa578e/view

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

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MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

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