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Retrenched Employees by Industry and Occupational Group, Quarterly

Retrenchment by Broad Occupational Group

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Retrenchment by Broad Occupational Group

Data from Jan 1998 to Dec 2024

Last updated: 19 Mar 2025, 13:50 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Source: Labour Market Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM ​

Before 2006, the Labour Market Survey covers private sector establishments each with at least 25 employees. From 2006 onwards, the survey also covers the public sector.

Data are rounded to the nearest 10. Hence, they may not add up to the total.

Retrench by Quarter

Data explorer

RetrenchmentbyBroadOccupationalGroup.csv (324 rows, 22.8 KB)

Quarter
Quarter (Q)
Occupation1
Text
Retrench
Text
Retrench Permanent
Text
Retrench Term Contract
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
clerical, sales and services workers33.3%
professional, managers, executive and technicians33.3%
production and transport operators, cleaners and labourers33.3%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)2.5%
1012.7%
2013.0%
308.0%
507.1%
1998-Q1professional, managers, executive and technicians1390135040
1998-Q1clerical, sales and services workers1160109070
1998-Q1production and transport operators, cleaners and labourers628046901590
1998-Q2professional, managers, executive and technicians1240118060
1998-Q2clerical, sales and services workers1360134020
1998-Q2production and transport operators, cleaners and labourers51604790360
1998-Q3professional, managers, executive and technicians14601340130
1998-Q3clerical, sales and services workers1420134080
1998-Q3production and transport operators, cleaners and labourers47403950780
1998-Q4professional, managers, executive and technicians2010196050

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
QuarterquarterQuarter (Q)--
Occupation1occupation1Text--
RetrenchretrenchText--
Retrench Permanentretrench_permanentText--
Retrench Term Contractretrench_term_contractText--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_a8993aefcea515e2ac68b9ded46aa62d"
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). Retrenchment by Broad Occupational Group (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved August 22, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_a8993aefcea515e2ac68b9ded46aa62d/view

About this dataset

Contact

NG_Li_Mei@mom.gov.sg

Created on

23 Mar 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)