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Economy

Retrenchment by Industry (Level 2)

Data from Jan 1998 to Mar 2024Updated 2 months ago

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Source: Labour Market Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM

Before 2006, the Labour Market Survey covers private sector establishments each with at least 25 employees. From 2006 onwards, the survey also covers the public sector.

Data are rounded to the nearest 10. Hence, they may not add up to the total.

Data may not be strictly comparable due to the various versions of SSIC coding.

Data explorer

RetrenchmentbyIndustryLevel2.csv (2K rows, 116.8 KB)

Quarter Text	Industry1 Text	Industry2 Text	Retrench Text	Retrench permanent Text	Retrench term contract Text
(Null)0.0% 2000-Q11.1% 2000-Q21.1% 2000-Q31.1% 2000-Q41.1%	(Null)0.0% services46.0% manufacturing43.5% others5.2% construction5.2%	(Null)0.0% others5.2% construction5.2% transport equipment5.2% wholesale and retail trade5.2%	(Null)6.8% 107.6% 206.7% 305.2% 406.1%	(Null)8.4% 108.2% 207.2% 306.0% 406.6%	(Null)57.5% 1017.8% 207.3% 304.2% 402.7%
1998-Q1	manufacturing	food, beverages and tobacco	40	40	-
1998-Q1	manufacturing	textile and wearing apparel	130	130	-
1998-Q1	manufacturing	paper products and publishing	130	130	-
1998-Q1	manufacturing	petroleum and chemical products	200	190	10
1998-Q1	manufacturing	rubber and plastic products	290	290	-
1998-Q1	manufacturing	fabricated metal products	130	130	-
1998-Q1	manufacturing	machinery and equipment	250	180	70
1998-Q1	manufacturing	electrical products	470	460	-
1998-Q1	manufacturing	electronic products	4120	3190	930
1998-Q1	manufacturing	medical and precision instruments	10	10	-

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Quarter	quarter	Text	-	-
Industry1	industry1	Text	-	-
Industry2	industry2	Text	-	-
Retrench	retrench	Text	-	-
Retrench permanent	retrench_permanent	Text	-	-
Retrench term contract	retrench_term_contract	Text	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_e0e23a66d88b10392d5bb6fee793a90b"
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. (2016). Retrenchment by Industry (Level 2) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 21, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_e0e23a66d88b10392d5bb6fee793a90b/view

About this dataset

Contact

NG_Li_Mei@mom.gov.sg

Created on

23 Mar 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

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