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Membership of Employees' Trade Unions by Membership Size

Total Employees' Trade Union Membership

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Total Employees' Trade Union Membership

Data from Jan 2014 to Jan 2024

Last updated: 07 May 2025, 16:16 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Number of Employees' Trade Union Membership by Year

No of members by Year

Data explorer

TotalEmployeesTradeUnionMembership.csv (11 rows, 163 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
No Of Members
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
2014686676
2015718723
2016740750
2017755217
2018762807
2019785643
2020781547
2021785456
2022799947
2023813181

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
No Of Membersno_of_membersText--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_f0b6868ab1c4b2fb1ac9aa7f0e722e4f"
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). Total Employees' Trade Union Membership (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_f0b6868ab1c4b2fb1ac9aa7f0e722e4f/view

About this dataset

Contact

low_pei_ching@mom.gov.sg

Created on

23 Jun 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)