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Number and Incidence of Retrenchment by Residential Status - Annual

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Retrenchment refers to the termination of permanent employees due to redundancy and early termination of term contract employees due to redundancy. Incidence of retrenchment refers to the number of retrenched employees per one thousand employees. Data by residential status breakdown are available from 2007 onwards. Source: Labour Market Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM Data pertain to private sector establishments (each with at least 25 employees) and the public sector.

Data from 2007 to 2025

Last updated 5 months ago (23 Mar 2026)

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NumberandIncidenceofRetrenchmentbyResidentialStatusAnnual.csv (19 rows, 769 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Retrench Total Text	Retrench Resident Text	Retrench Non Resident Text	Incidence Total Text	Incidence Resident Text	Incidence Non Resident Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2007	8590	6010	2580	6	6.1	5.7
2008	16880	10360	6520	10.6	10.1	11.6
2009	23430	14510	8910	14.2	13.8	14.9
2010	9800	5670	4140	5.7	5.2	6.6
2011	9990	5740	4260	5.5	5.1	6.2
2012	11010	6880	4130	5.8	5.9	5.6
2013	11560	7520	4050	5.8	6.3	5.1
2014	12930	7240	5690	6.3	5.8	7
2015	15580	9090	6490	7.4	7.1	7.7
2016	19170	11080	8090	8.9	8.6	9.5

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Retrench Total	retrench_total	Text	-	-
Retrench Resident	retrench_resident	Text	-	-
Retrench Non Resident	retrench_non_resident	Text	-	-
Incidence Total	incidence_total	Text	-	-
Incidence Resident	incidence_resident	Text	-	-
Incidence Non Resident	incidence_non_resident	Text	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_cc9216784a9de451166a236e9f575c45"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Ministry of Manpower. (2026). Number and Incidence of Retrenchment by Residential Status - Annual (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_cc9216784a9de451166a236e9f575c45/view

Number and Incidence of Retrenchment by Residential Status - Annual

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