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Overall Unemployment Rate, Quarterly

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Data refer to the quarterly overall unemployment rate. Seasonally adjusted data are revised using the latest set of seasonal factors and updated in line with standard seasonal adjustment procedure. The revision is done once a year, taking into account observations for the latest available year. Source: Labour Force Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM, except data for June 1995, June 2000 and June 2005, which are from the Population Census 2000, General Household Surveys 1995 & 2005 conducted by the Singapore Department of Statistics.

Data from Mar 1992 to Jun 2026

Last updated 1 month ago (3 Aug 2026)

Seasonally Adjusted Overall Unemployment Rate, Quarterly

Data explorer

OverallUnemploymentRateQuarterly.csv (138 rows, 3.4 KB)

Period
Month (YYYY-MM)
Residential Status
Text
Seasonally Adj Unemp Rate
Numeric (Percentage)
Non Seasonally Adj Unemp Rate
Numeric (Percentage)
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
overall100.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
1992-03overall1.81.5
1992-06overall1.82.4
1992-09overall21.6
1992-12overall1.61.7
1993-03overall1.51.2
1993-06overall1.82.4
1993-09overall1.81.5
1993-12overall1.61.7
1994-03overall1.71.4
1994-06overall1.62.2
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_ca32584c91ee07d091a4ce75fa868414"
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. (2026). Overall Unemployment Rate, Quarterly (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 5, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_ca32584c91ee07d091a4ce75fa868414/view

About this dataset

Contact

ng_mun_yi@mom.gov.sg

Created on

26 Feb 2026

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)