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Collection: Foreign Workforce Numbers, Annual

Dataset: Stock of Foreign Workforce by Pass Type

Economy

Stock of Foreign Workforce by Pass Type

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Data from Dec 2017 to Dec 2022

Last updated 6 Jun 2024

Data explorer

StockofForeignWorkforcebyPassType.csv (24 rows, 718 B)

Month Month (YYYY-MM)	Work pass type Text	Count Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2017-12	employment_pass	187700
2017-12	s_pass	184400
2017-12	work_permit	965200
2017-12	other_work_passes	30700
2018-12	employment_pass	185,800
2018-12	s_pass	195,500
2018-12	work_permit	972600
2018-12	other_work_passes	32100
2019-12	employment_pass	193700
2019-12	s_pass	200000

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Month	month	Month (YYYY-MM)	-	-
Work pass type	work_pass_type	Text	-	-
Count	count	Text	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_ca90ebca85472a1bf8fb01362b7233fa"
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. (2019). Stock of Foreign Workforce by Pass Type (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_ca90ebca85472a1bf8fb01362b7233fa/view

About this dataset

Contact

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Created on

16 Jul 2019

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)