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Economy

Unemployed Residents Aged 15 Years and Over by Highest Qualification Attained and Duration of Unemployment

Data from Jan 2010 to Jan 2023Updated 2 months ago

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Reference month of June
Residents refer to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.

Source: Comprehensive Labour Force Survey, Manpower Research And Statistics Department, MOM

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UnemployedResidentsAged15YearsandOverbyHighestQualificationAttainedandDurationofUnemployment.csv (1.5K rows, 66.7 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sex Text	Highest Qualification Text	Duration Text	Unemployed Text
(Null)0.0% 20107.1% 20117.1% 20127.1% 20137.1%	(Null)0.0% male50.0% female50.0%	(Null)0.0% degree16.7% secondary16.7% lower secondary16.7% primary and below16.7%	(Null)0.0% 5 to 911.1% under 511.1% 10 to 1411.1% 15 to 1911.1%	(Null)5.8% 10013.1% 20011.2% 30010.0% 4007.9%
2010	male	primary and below	under 5	2600
2010	male	primary and below	5 to 9	900
2010	male	primary and below	10 to 14	900
2010	male	primary and below	15 to 19	500
2010	male	primary and below	20 to 24	1300
2010	male	primary and below	25 to 29	100
2010	male	primary and below	30 to 39	100
2010	male	primary and below	40 to 51	300
2010	male	primary and below	52 and over	1000
2010	male	lower secondary	under 5	2200

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sex	sex	Text	-	-
Highest Qualification	highest_qualification	Text	-	-
Duration	duration	Text	-	-
Unemployed	unemployed	Text	-	-

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
          
datasetId = "d_a0ca632fd1d6ff841f0e47298a9ab589"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + datasetId 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

About this dataset

Contact

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

Created on

15 Jul 2024

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

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