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Unemployed Residents Aged 15 Years & Over By Highest Qualification Attained, Duration of Unemployment 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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UnemployedResidentsAged15YearsOverByHighestQualificationAttainedDurationofUnemploymentAndSex.csv (1.7K rows, 76.2 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sex Text	Highest Qualification Text	Duration Of Unemployment Text	Unemployed Numeric
(Null)0.0% 20106.3% 20116.3% 20126.3% 20136.3%	(Null)0.0% male50.0% female50.0%	(Null)0.0% degree16.7% secondary16.7% lower secondary16.7% primary and below16.7%	(Null)0.0% 5 to 911.1% under 511.1% 10 to 1411.1% 15 to 1911.1%	(Null)0.0% 10014.2% 20011.4% 3009.7% 4007.3%
2010	male	primary and below	under 5	2600
2010	male	primary and below	5 to 9	900
2010	male	primary and below	10 to 14	900
2010	male	primary and below	15 to 19	500
2010	male	primary and below	20 to 24	1300
2010	male	primary and below	25 to 29	100
2010	male	primary and below	30 to 39	100
2010	male	primary and below	40 to 51	300
2010	male	primary and below	52 and over	1000
2010	male	lower secondary	under 5	2200

Column legend

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

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_e86bfae75632429f22fb315adba3e1a3"
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 Highest Qualification Attained, Duration of Unemployment And Sex (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_e86bfae75632429f22fb315adba3e1a3/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)