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Economy

Resident Unemployed Persons Aged 15 Years and Over Who Worked Before by Previous Occupation and Previous Industry (General Household Survey 2005)

SINGSTAT (Singapore Department of Statistics)

Source: SINGAPORE DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS

Data Last Updated: 29/03/2016

Update Frequency: 10 years

Survey period: General Household Survey 2005

Adapted from: https://tablebuilder.singstat.gov.sg/table/CT/8829

Last updated 26 days ago (20 Aug 2026)

Updated every 10 years

Data explorer

ResidentUnemployedPersonsAged15YearsandOverWhoWorkedBeforebyPreviousOccupationandPreviousIndustryGeneralHouseholdSurvey2005.csv (11 rows, 1.3 KB)

Number
Text
Total
Numeric
Manufacturing
Text
Construction
Text
Wholesale & Retail Trade
Text
Hotels & Restaurants
Text
Transport & Storage
Text
Information & Communications
Text
Financial Services
Text
Business Services
Text
Community, Social & Personal Services
Numeric
Others*
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)18.2%
(Null)18.2%
(Null)18.2%
(Null)18.2%
(Null)18.2%
(Null)18.2%
(Null)18.2%
(Null)18.2%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
Total8553915386509117163899768903010461510866119271592
Senior Officials & Managers5753815514172652725635638076838726
Professionals50638332263401377863460921130426
Associate Professionals & Technicians1261416463131708236686822168923003072142
Clerical Workers17074230266638687151615714173022702931265
Service & Sales Workers17081270906670533456956952080187938
Agricultural & Fishery Workers64nananananananana1352
Production Craftsmen & Related Workers6479239423194876416712126258488155
Plant & Machine Operators & Assemblers1143561973921556155221439108414232129
Cleaners, Labourers & Related Workers876393157180919541306381291857937232
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_efdfc0e400b335b53d83c00ec44fa826"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Singapore Department of Statistics. (2024). Resident Unemployed Persons Aged 15 Years and Over Who Worked Before by Previous Occupation and Previous Industry (General Household Survey 2005) (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 15, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_efdfc0e400b335b53d83c00ec44fa826/view

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Created on

26 Oct 2024

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