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Resident Labour Force Aged 15 Years and Over by Highest Qualification Attained and Sex

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)
  1. Reference month of June
  2. Residents refer to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.
  3. Data for 1995, 2000 and 2005 are not available as the Comprehensive Labour Force Survey was not conducted in these years due to the conduct of the Population Census 2000 and General Household Surveys 1995 and 2005 by the Singapore Department of Statistics.
  4. 2007 data have been adjusted based on latest revised population estimates from the Singapore Department of Statistics to facilitate comparisons with 2008 onwards.

Data from 1991 to 2025

Last updated 5 months ago (23 Mar 2026)

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ResidentLabourForceAged15YearsandOverbyHighestQualificationAttainedandSex.csv (384 rows, 12.4 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Sex
Text
Highest Qualification
Text
Labour Force
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
19913.1%
19923.1%
19933.1%
19943.1%
(Null)0.0%
male50.0%
female50.0%
(Null)0.0%
degree16.7%
post-sec16.7%
secondary16.7%
lower_secondary16.7%
(Null)0.0%
1991maleprimary_and_below281300
1991malelower_secondary158800
1991malesecondary224400
1991malepost-sec76000
1991maledip_and_professional_qual58300
1991maledegree57400
1991femaleprimary_and_below143900
1991femalelower_secondary53300
1991femalesecondary195900
1991femalepost-sec61100
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_cdb0d9a947bd381c7a767ed2fce1f99f"
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). Resident Labour Force Aged 15 Years and Over by Highest Qualification Attained and Sex (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_cdb0d9a947bd381c7a767ed2fce1f99f/view

About this dataset

Contact

ng_mun_yi@mom.gov.sgbrian_pang@mom.gov.sg

Created on

23 Mar 2026

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)