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Economy

Overall Unemployment Rate, Quarterly

Updated 16 days ago

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)
  • Seasonally adjusted data are revised using the latest set of seasonal factors and updated in line with standard seasonal adjustment procedure. The revision is done once a year, taking into account observations for the latest available year.

Source: Labour Force Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM, except data for June 1995, June 2000 and June 2005, which are from the Population Census 2000, General Household Surveys 1995 & 2005 conducted by the Singapore Department of Statistics.

Data explorer

OverallUnemploymentRateQuarterly.csv (131 rows, 3.2 KB)

Period
Text
Residential Status
Text
Seasonally adjusted unemployment rate
Text
Non Seasonally Adj Unemp Rate
Text
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
overall100.0%
(Null)0.0%
1.913.0%
2.111.5%
1.89.2%
2.29.2%
(Null)0.0%
1992-03overall1.81.5
1992-06overall1.82.4
1992-09overall21.6
1992-12overall1.61.7
1993-03overall1.51.2
1993-06overall1.82.4
1993-09overall1.81.5
1993-12overall1.61.7
1994-03overall1.71.4
1994-06overall1.62.2

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
PeriodperiodText--
Residential Statusresidential_statusText--
Seasonally adjusted unemployment rateseasonally_adj_unemp_rateText--
Non Seasonally Adj Unemp Ratenon_seasonally_adj_unemp_rateText--
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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_f672ae4c838a5d4dfe53ea0e7120f350"
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). Overall Unemployment Rate, Quarterly (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 21, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_f672ae4c838a5d4dfe53ea0e7120f350/view

About this dataset

Contact

chan_hui_rong@mom.gov.sgng_mun_yi@mom.gov.sg

Created on

18 Apr 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

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