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Resident Labour Force Participation Rate by Sex

Data from Jan 1991 to Jan 2025

Last updated: 23 Mar 2026, 16:17 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)
  1. Data are for mid-year.
  2. Residents refer to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.
  3. Labour force participation rate is defined as the percentage of the labour force to the population aged fifteen years & over.
  4. Data for 1995, 2000 and 2005 are not available as the Comprehensive Labour Force Survey was not conducted in these years due to the conduct of the Population Census 2000 and General Household Surveys 1995 and 2005 by the Singapore Department of Statistics.
  5. 2007 data have been adjusted based on latest revised population estimates from the Singapore Department of Statistics to facilitate comparisons with 2008 onwards.

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

Data explorer

ResidentLabourForceParticipationRatebySex.csv (64 rows, 1.1 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Sex
Text
Labour Force Participation Rate
Numeric (Percentage)
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
male50.0%
female50.0%
(Null)0.0%
1991male79.4
1991female48
1992male79.4
1992female48.6
1993male78.8
1993female48
1994male79.2
1994female48.6
1996male78.7
1996female49.9

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
SexsexText--
Labour Force Participation RatelfprNumeric (Percentage)percent-
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_a365e10bbe7f63f6f352ee835d9c5959"
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 Labour Force Participation Rate by Sex (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 19, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_a365e10bbe7f63f6f352ee835d9c5959/view

About this dataset

Contact

brian_pang@mom.gov.sgng_mun_yi@mom.gov.sg

Created on

14 Apr 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)