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Unemployed Residents Aged 15 Years & Over By Age, Highest Qualification Attained And Sex

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Reference month of June
Residents refer to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.

Source: Comprehensive Labour Force Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM

Data from 2010 to 2025

Last updated 5 months ago (23 Mar 2026)

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UnemployedResidentsAged15YearsOverByAgeHighestQualificationAttainedAndSex.csv (768 rows, 33.2 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sex Text	Age Text	Highest Qualification Text	Unemployed Numeric
(Null)0.0% 20106.3% 20116.3% 20126.3% 20136.3%	(Null)0.0% male50.0% female50.0%	(Null)0.0% 15-2925.0% 30-3925.0% 40-4925.0% 50 and over25.0%	(Null)0.0% degree16.7% secondary16.7% lower secondary16.7% primary and below16.7%	(Null)0.0% 4004.0% 6004.9% 7004.2% 11004.3%
2010	male	15-29	primary and below	500
2010	male	15-29	lower secondary	1200
2010	male	15-29	secondary	3300
2010	male	15-29	post-secondary (non-tertiary)	3100
2010	male	15-29	diploma and professional qualification	3400
2010	male	15-29	degree	3300
2010	male	30-39	primary and below	1000
2010	male	30-39	lower secondary	700
2010	male	30-39	secondary	1500
2010	male	30-39	post-secondary (non-tertiary)	1200

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sex	sex	Text	-	-
Age	age	Text	-	-
Highest Qualification	highest_qualification	Text	-	-
Unemployed	unemployed	Numeric	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_e20b7b436270ddb7435e269ec8855529"
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). Unemployed Residents Aged 15 Years & Over By Age, Highest Qualification Attained And Sex (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 10, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_e20b7b436270ddb7435e269ec8855529/view

About this dataset

Contact

ng_mun_yi@mom.gov.sg brian_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)