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Employment Rate of Residents Aged 25 to 64 (Total)

Data from Jan 1991 to Dec 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:08 SGT

  • Data are for mid-year.
  • Employment rate is defined as the percentage of the employed persons to the population aged fifteen years & over.
  • Residents refer to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.
  • Data for 1995, 2000 and 2005 are not available as the Comprehensive Labour Force Survey was not conducted in these years due to the conduct of the Population Census 2000 and General Household Surveys 1995 and 2005 by the Singapore Department of Statistics.
  • 2007 data have been adjusted based on latest revised population estimates from the Singapore Department of Statistics to facilitate comparisons with 2008 onwards.

Source: Comprehensive Labour Force Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM

Data explorer

EmploymentRateofResidentsAged25to64Total.csv (29 rows, 296 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Employment Rate of Residents Aged 25 to 64
Numeric (Percentage)
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
199170.9
199270.9
199370.9
199471.6
199672.8
199773
199872.8
199972.1
200173.7
200272.1

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
YearyearYear (YYYY)--
Employment Rate of Residents Aged 25 to 64emp_rateNumeric (Percentage)--
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_f50492fe89a0c3a522bf9c04ce3e6380"
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.

null. (2016). Employment Rate of Residents Aged 25 to 64 (Total) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved October 2, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_f50492fe89a0c3a522bf9c04ce3e6380/view

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Created on

14 Apr 2016

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

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