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Number of Employees' Trade Unions by Industry

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Breakdown of number of employees' trade unions by industry

Data from 2014 to 2024

Last updated 7 May 2025

Number of Employees' Trade Unions by Industry

Data explorer

NumberofEmployeesTradeUnionsbyIndustry.csv (99 rows, 3.8 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Industry Text	No Of Tu Text
(Null)0.0% 20149.1% 20159.1% 20169.1% 20179.1%	(Null)0.0% Others11.1% Construction11.1% Manufacturing11.1% Wholesale & Retail Trade11.1%	(Null)0.0% 122.2% 221.2% 312.1% 411.1%
2014	Manufacturing	15
2014	Construction	1
2014	Wholesale & Retail Trade	1
2014	Accommodation & Food Services	2
2014	Transport & Storage and Information & Communications	16
2014	Financial & Insurance Services	4
2014	Real Estate, Professional and Administrative & Support Services	2
2014	Community, Social & Personal Services	21
2014	Others	3
2015	Manufacturing	15

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Industry	industry	Text	-	-
No Of Tu	no_of_tu	Text	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_d2448eb62adf0337ca58c037c6cc3633"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

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Ministry of Manpower. (2022). Number of Employees' Trade Unions by Industry (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_d2448eb62adf0337ca58c037c6cc3633/view

About this dataset

Contact

low_pei_ching@mom.gov.sg

Created on

11 Apr 2022

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)