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Employment Rate of Residents Aged 25 to 64 by Sex

Data from Jan 1991 to Dec 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:00 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Data are for mid-year.
Employment rate by sex is defined as the percentage of the employed persons to the population aged fifteen years & over in the specific sex.
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

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_ca7a8eedf7b8cbe05d5a140a6dc9fc3c"
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). Employment Rate of Residents Aged 25 to 64 by Sex (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved December 28, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_ca7a8eedf7b8cbe05d5a140a6dc9fc3c/view

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Contact

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Created on

14 Apr 2016

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

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Social

Employment Rate of Residents Aged 25 to 64 by Sex

Data from Jan 1991 to Dec 2022

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:00 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

Data are for mid-year.
Employment rate by sex is defined as the percentage of the employed persons to the population aged fifteen years & over in the specific sex.
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

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Data explorer

EmploymentRateofResidentsAged25to64bySex.csv (58 rows, 942 B)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sex Text	Employment Rate of Residents Aged 25 to 64 Numeric (Percentage)
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
1991	male	90.9
1991	female	50.8
1992	male	90
1992	female	51.9
1993	male	90.3
1993	female	51.5
1994	male	90.8
1994	female	52.5
1996	male	90.6
1996	female	55.4

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sex	sex	Text	-	-
Employment Rate of Residents Aged 25 to 64	emp_rate	Numeric (Percentage)	-	-

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