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Economy

Unemployed Residents Aged 15 Years and Over by Age and Duration of Unemployment

Data from Jan 2010 to Jan 2023Updated 8 months ago

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

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UnemployedResidentsAged15YearsandOverbyAgeandDurationofUnemployment.csv (1.3K rows, 40 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sex Text	Age Text	Duration Text	Unemployed Text
(Null)0.0% 20107.1% 20117.1% 20127.1% 20137.1%	(Null)0.0% male50.0% female50.0%	(Null)0.0% 15-2420.0% 25-2920.0% 30-3920.0% 40-4920.0%	(Null)0.0% 5 to 911.1% under 511.1% 10 to 1411.1% 15 to 1911.1%	(Null)3.9% 1009.8% 20010.7% 3008.7% 4007.8%
2010	male	15-24	under 5	4700
2010	male	15-24	5 to 9	1700
2010	male	15-24	10 to 14	700
2010	male	15-24	15 to 19	200
2010	male	15-24	20 to 24	500
2010	male	15-24	25 to 29	100
2010	male	15-24	30 to 39	-
2010	male	15-24	40 to 51	200
2010	male	15-24	52 and over	100
2010	male	25-29	under 5	3100

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sex	sex	Text	-	-
Age	age	Text	-	-
Duration	duration	Text	-	-
Unemployed	unemployed	Text	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_db95e15ceffaa368a043310479dc7d57"
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. (2024). Unemployed Residents Aged 15 Years and Over by Age and Duration of Unemployment (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved March 20, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_db95e15ceffaa368a043310479dc7d57/view

About this dataset

Contact

chan_hui_rong@mom.gov.sg ng_mun_yi@mom.gov.sg

Created on

15 Jul 2024

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)