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Economy

Resident Long-Term Unemployment Rate (Annual)

Data from Jan 1992 to Jan 2023Updated 11 months ago

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Residents refer to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.
Long-term unemployment rate is defined as the percentage of unemployed persons who have been unemployed for at least 25 weeks to the labour force.
Annual figures are the simple averages of the non-seasonally adjusted unemployment figures obtained at quarterly intervals.
Annual average data for 2000 are not available as data on duration of unemployment was not collected in Population Census 2000 (June) which was conducted by the Singapore Department of Statistics.

Source: Labour Force Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM, except data for June 1995, and June 2005, which are from the General Household Surveys 1995 & 2005 conducted by the Singapore Department of Statistics.

Data explorer

ResidentLongTermUnemploymentRateAnnual.csv (31 rows, 585 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Residential status Text	Long-term unemployment rate Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0% resident100.0%	(Null)0.0%
1992	resident	0.3
1993	resident	0.3
1994	resident	0.3
1995	resident	0.3
1996	resident	0.4
1997	resident	0.4
1998	resident	0.8
1999	resident	1.2
2001	resident	0.9
2002	resident	1.4

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Residential status	residential_status	Text	-	-
Long-term unemployment rate	ltu_rate	Numeric	-	-

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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_f095d1e91b1c66d11ce3db70c0c924fd"
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. (2016). Resident Long-Term Unemployment Rate (Annual) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved May 6, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_f095d1e91b1c66d11ce3db70c0c924fd/view

About this dataset

Contact

chan_hui_rong@mom.gov.sg ng_mun_yi@mom.gov.sg

Created on

21 Apr 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)