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Employed Residents Aged 15 Years & Over by Employment Status, Highest Qualification Attained And Sex

Data from Jan 2010 to Jan 2025

Last updated: 27 Mar 2026, 18:22 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)
  1. Reference month of June
  2. Residents refer to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.

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

Data explorer

EmployedResidentsAged15YearsOverbyEmploymentStatusHighestQualificationAttainedAndSex.csv (768 rows, 40.9 KB)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Sex
Text
Employment Status
Text
Highest Qualification Attained
Text
Employed
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
20106.3%
20116.3%
20126.3%
20136.3%
(Null)0.0%
male50.0%
female50.0%
(Null)0.0%
employees25.0%
employers25.0%
own account workers25.0%
contributing family workers25.0%
(Null)0.0%
degree16.7%
secondary16.7%
lower secondary16.7%
primary and below16.7%
(Null)0.0%
2010maleemployersprimary and below10800
2010maleemployerslower secondary10200
2010maleemployerssecondary16400
2010maleemployerspost-secondary (non-tertiary)8900
2010maleemployersdiploma and professional qualification10200
2010maleemployersdegree21400
2010maleemployeesprimary and below109700
2010maleemployeeslower secondary78100
2010maleemployeessecondary156200
2010maleemployeespost-secondary (non-tertiary)126400
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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_e9fc3914dace45ce40b0a7702702f4b2"
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). Employed Residents Aged 15 Years & Over by Employment Status, Highest Qualification Attained And Sex (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 29, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_e9fc3914dace45ce40b0a7702702f4b2/view

About this dataset

Contact

brian_pang@mom.gov.sgng_mun_yi@mom.gov.sg

Created on

27 Mar 2026

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)