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Proportion Of Employees Who Took Sick Leave - Topline

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Source: Conditions of Employment Survey, Manpower Research and Statistics Department, MOM

Notes: (1) Data pertain to private sector establishments each with at least 25 employees and the public sector. (2) Data are available biennially.

Data from Jan 2007 to Dec 2023

Last updated 2 months ago (30 Jun 2026)

Data explorer

ProportionOfEmployeesWhoTookSickLeaveTopline.csv (18 rows, 608 B)

Year
Year (YYYY)
Sick Leave
Text
Proportion
Numeric (Percentage)
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
hospitalisation leave50.0%
outpatient sick leave50.0%
(Null)0.0%
2007hospitalisation leave4.1
2007outpatient sick leave55.8
2009hospitalisation leave4.3
2009outpatient sick leave54.6
2011hospitalisation leave4.2
2011outpatient sick leave58.2
2013hospitalisation leave5.2
2013outpatient sick leave58.4
2015hospitalisation leave6
2015outpatient sick leave60
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_f66ad192831ee7295a97f5117a08fdb7"
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. (2026). Proportion Of Employees Who Took Sick Leave - Topline (2026) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 9, 2026 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_f66ad192831ee7295a97f5117a08fdb7/view

About this dataset

Contact

quek_seow_leng@mom.gov.sg

Created on

25 Mar 2026

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)