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Unemployment Topline Indicators, Annual And Quarterly

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.
Annual figures are the simple averages of the non-seasonally adjusted unemployment figures obtained at quarterly intervals.

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 Department of Statistics.

Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the metadata for this collection. 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
          
collection_id = 2119          
url = "https://api-production.data.gov.sg/v2/public/api/collections/{}/metadata".format(collection_id)
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Unemployment Topline Indicators, Annual And Quarterly

Data from Jan 1992 to Jun 2023

Last updated: 30 Jul 2025, 15:22 SGT

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.
Annual figures are the simple averages of the non-seasonally adjusted unemployment figures obtained at quarterly intervals.

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