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Average Monthly Recruitment/Resignation Rates by Industry and Occupational Group, Annual

Average Monthly Recruitment/Resignation Rate-Topline, Annual

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Average Monthly Recruitment/Resignation Rate-Topline, Annual

Data from Jan 1998 to Jan 2024

Last updated: 19 Mar 2025, 16:10 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.

Annual figures are the simple averages of the quarterly figures.

Data are rounded to one decimal place.

Recruitment rate, Resignation rate by Year

Data explorer

AverageMonthlyRecruitmentResignationRateToplineAnnual.csv (27 rows, 400 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Recruitment Rate
Text
Resignation Rate
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
19982.32.1
19992.62.2
20003.22.5
20012.52.2
20022.42.1
20032.32
20042.82.2
20052.72.1
20062.82
20072.92

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
Recruitment Raterecruitment_rateText--
Resignation Rateresignation_rateText--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_c586be602b0fc011118d64fe1935b793"
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). Average Monthly Recruitment/Resignation Rate-Topline, Annual (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 2, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_c586be602b0fc011118d64fe1935b793/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)