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Distribution of Residents​ with Disabilities Outside the Labour Force by Main Reason for Not Working

Updated 10 months ago

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

The use of two-year moving averages is to smoothen out year on year fluctuations due to the relatively small number of persons with disabilities.

Data explorer

DistributionofResidentswithDisabilitiesOutsidetheLabourForcebyMainReasonforNotWorking.csv (40 rows, 1.5 KB)

Year
Text
Main Reason For Not Working
Text
Distribution Of Pwd By Main Reason For Not Working
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
2018-201920.0%
2019-202020.0%
2020-202120.0%
2021-202220.0%
(Null)0.0%
Others12.5%
Retired12.5%
Discouraged12.5%
Taking a break12.5%
(Null)0.0%
2018-2019Too old/Poor health/Disabled81.3
2019-2020Too old/Poor health/Disabled78.4
2020-2021Too old/Poor health/Disabled75.2
2021-2022Too old/Poor health/Disabled77.3
2022-2023Too old/Poor health/Disabled76.2
2018-2019Education/Training Related11.3
2019-2020Education/Training Related10.8
2020-2021Education/Training Related10.3
2021-2022Education/Training Related10.9
2022-2023Education/Training Related12.7

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearText--
Main Reason For Not Workingmain_reason_for_not_workingText--
Distribution Of Pwd By Main Reason For Not Workingdistribution_of_pwd_by_main_reason_for_not_workingNumeric--
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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_ed40b7edb2260048c86f33b7f61392bb"
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. (2024). Distribution of Residents​ with Disabilities Outside the Labour Force by Main Reason for Not Working (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved May 15, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_ed40b7edb2260048c86f33b7f61392bb/view

About this dataset

Contact

chan_hui_rong@mom.gov.sgyeo_hui_yi@mom.gov.sg

Created on

17 Jul 2024

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)