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Economy

Employment Change By Industry, Quarterly

Data from Jan 1991 to Mar 2024Updated 6 months ago

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)

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

Notes:

  1. Data are primarily from administrative records, with the self-employed component estimated from the Labour Force Survey.

  2. 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

EmploymentChangeByIndustryQuarterly.csv (4.1K rows, 331.5 KB)

Quarter
Quarter (Q)
Industry1
Text
Industry2
Text
Industry3
Text
Employment Change
Text
(Null)0.0%
2002-Q10.9%
2002-Q20.9%
2002-Q30.9%
2002-Q40.9%
(Null)0.0%
services63.9%
manufacturing29.7%
others3.2%
construction3.2%
(Null)0.0%
community, social and personal services17.7%
professional services6.5%
wholesale and retail trade6.5%
transportation and storage5.9%
(Null)0.0%
others3.2%
education3.2%
construction3.2%
retail trade3.2%
(Null)5.2%
0.36.1%
0.25.8%
0.15.4%
0.44.8%
1991-Q1manufacturingfood, beverages and tobaccofood, beverages and tobacco0.1
1991-Q1manufacturingtextile and wearing appareltextile and wearing apparel-1
1991-Q1manufacturingpaper products and publishingpaper products and publishing0.1
1991-Q1manufacturingpetroleum, chemical, rubber and plastic productspetroleum, chemical, rubber and plastic products0.3
1991-Q1manufacturingfabricated metal productsfabricated metal products0.2
1991-Q1manufacturingmachinery and equipmentmachinery and equipment0.5
1991-Q1manufacturingelectrical productselectrical products-
1991-Q1manufacturingelectronic productselectronic products-2.6
1991-Q1manufacturingmedical and precision instrumentsmedical and precision instruments-
1991-Q1manufacturingtransport equipmenttransport equipment2.3

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
QuarterquarterQuarter (Q)--
Industry1industry1Text--
Industry2industry2Text--
Industry3industry3Text--
Employment Changeemployment_changeText--
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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_f5d4dc45fc7b6c682de716d2aa6c85d7"
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, Quarterly (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved February 5, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_f5d4dc45fc7b6c682de716d2aa6c85d7/view

About this dataset

Contact

mok_jia_wen@mom.gov.sg

Created on

07 Aug 2018

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)