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Trade Disputes Referred for Conciliation by Industry

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

This table shows the total number of trade disputes referred for conciliation by industry

Data from 2005 to 2025

Last updated 5 months ago (10 Apr 2026)

No of trade disputes by Year

Data explorer

TradeDisputesReferredforConciliationbyIndustry.csv (126 rows, 5.8 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Industry Text	No Of Trade Disputes Text
(Null)0.0% 20054.8% 20064.8% 20074.8% 20084.8%	(Null)0.0% Others16.7% Construction16.7% Manufacturing16.7% Wholesale & Retail Trade and Hotels & Restaurants13.5%	(Null)0.0%
2005	Manufacturing	64
2005	Construction	8
2005	Wholesale & Retail Trade and Hotels & Restaurants	21
2005	Transportation & Storage and Information & Communications	31
2005	Financial & Insurance, Real Estate, Professional, Administrative and Community, Social & Personal Services	38
2005	Others	1
2006	Manufacturing	41
2006	Construction	4
2006	Wholesale & Retail Trade and Hotels & Restaurants	45
2006	Transportation & Storage and Information & Communications	40

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Industry	industry	Text	-	-
No Of Trade Disputes	no_of_trade_disputes	Text	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_9903b834a7d5456b674c9c8ecc7fa6f0"
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. (2016). Trade Disputes Referred for Conciliation by Industry (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_9903b834a7d5456b674c9c8ecc7fa6f0/view

About this dataset

Contact

teo_kuan_yee@mom.gov.sg

Created on

06 Jun 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)