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Number of Employees' Trade Unions by Membership Size

Total Number of Employees' Trade Unions

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Total Number of Employees' Trade Unions

Data from Jan 2014 to Jan 2024

Last updated: 07 May 2025, 16:13 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Number of Employees' Trade Union by Year

No of trade unions by Year

Data explorer

TotalNumberofEmployeesTradeUnions.csv (11 rows, 124 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	No Of Trade Unions Text
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2014	65
2015	64
2016	63
2017	61
2018	63
2019	63
2020	62
2021	61
2022	61
2023	61

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
No Of Trade Unions	no_of_trade_unions	Text	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_f38a687646c5fba09014e9d17f1f2809"
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 Number of Employees' Trade Unions (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 19, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_f38a687646c5fba09014e9d17f1f2809/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)