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Employment Change By Industry, Annual (December to December)

Employment Change By Industry (Level3)

Economy

Employment Change By Industry (Level3)

Data from Jan 1991 to Dec 2022Updated 9 months ago

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Source: Administrative Records and Labour Force Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM

Notes:

Data are primarily from administrative records, with the self-employed component estimated from the Labour Force Survey.
Change in employment is the difference in the employment level at the end of the reference period compared with the end of the preceding period.

Data explorer

EmploymentChangeByIndustryLevel3.csv (910 rows, 69.7 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Industry1 Text	Industry2 Text	Industry3 Text	Employment Change Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)1.0%
1991	others	others	others	-0.1
1991	construction	construction	construction	17.7
1991	manufacturing	food, beverages and tobacco	food, beverages and tobacco	0.1
1991	manufacturing	textile and wearing apparel	textile and wearing apparel	-2.4
1991	manufacturing	paper products and publishing	paper products and publishing	0.8
1991	manufacturing	petroleum, chemical, rubber and plastic products	petroleum, chemical, rubber and plastic products	1.3
1991	manufacturing	fabricated metal products	fabricated metal products	0.1
1991	manufacturing	machinery and equipment	machinery and equipment	1.2
1991	manufacturing	electrical products	electrical products	-0.6
1991	manufacturing	electronic products	electronic products	-5.5

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Industry1	industry1	Text	-	-
Industry2	industry2	Text	-	-
Industry3	industry3	Text	-	-
Employment Change	employment_change	Numeric	In Thousands	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_49ba591f0cd08354853acbea812dd0b8"
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. (2018). Employment Change By Industry (Level3) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved March 18, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_49ba591f0cd08354853acbea812dd0b8/view

About this dataset

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Created on

07 Aug 2018

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)