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Resident Labour Force Participation Rate by Age and Sex

Data from Jan 1991 to Jan 2023Updated 10 months ago

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)
  1. Reference month of June
  2. Residents refer to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.
  3. Labour force participation rate by age and sex is defined as the percentage of persons in the labour force to the population in the specific sex and age group.
  4. 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

ResidentLabourForceParticipationRatebyAgeandSex.csv (720 rows, 16.4 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Sex
Text
Age
Text
Labour Force Participation Rate
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
19913.3%
19923.3%
19933.3%
19943.3%
(Null)0.0%
male50.0%
female50.0%
(Null)0.0%
15-198.3%
20-248.3%
25-298.3%
30-348.3%
(Null)0.0%
1991male15-1930
1991male20-2482.2
1991male25-2996.9
1991male30-3498.7
1991male35-3999.1
1991male40-4498.4
1991male45-4996.5
1991male50-5492.5
1991male55-5970.7
1991male60-6446.8

Column legend

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

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_af9f1e42060e313857e0497301df9bba"
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 Age and Sex (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved April 29, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_af9f1e42060e313857e0497301df9bba/view

About this dataset

Contact

chan_hui_rong@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)