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Incidence of Retrenchment by Industry - Annual

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Retrenchment refers to the termination of permanent employees due to redundancy and early termination of term contract employees due to redundancy. Incidence of retrenchment refers to the number of retrenched employees per one thousand employees. Source: Labour Market Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM Before 2006, data pertain to private sector establishments (each with at least 25 employees). From 2006 onwards, it also includes the public sector.

Data from 1998 to 2025

Last updated 5 months ago (23 Mar 2026)

Data explorer

IncidenceofRetrenchmentbyIndustryAnnual.csv (1.2K rows, 44.6 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Industry
Text
Incidence Of Retrenchment
Text
(Null)0.0%
20003.7%
20013.7%
20023.7%
20033.7%
(Null)0.0%
others2.4%
construction2.4%
retail trade2.4%
manufacturing2.4%
(Null)1.6%
1998manufacturing62.9
1998food, beverages and tobacco15.4
1998textile and wearing apparel31.1
1998paper products and publishing27
1998petroleum and chemical products30.1
1998rubber and plastic products62.3
1998fabricated metal products32.4
1998machinery and equipment47.7
1998electrical products118.7
1998electronic products112.9
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_8ee93a4e261908fafe878ea0bec29817"
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). Incidence of Retrenchment by Industry - Annual (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_8ee93a4e261908fafe878ea0bec29817/view

About this dataset

Contact

ng_li_mei@mom.gov.sgsamantha_teo@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)