Overall Unemployment Rate, Quarterly
Description
Monitor Singapore’s overall unemployment rate as a quarterly labour-market time series published by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM). The dataset supports analysis of employment cycles, workforce conditions, economic recovery, and long-term labour trends, including seasonally adjusted indicators from the Labour Force Survey and historical benchmark survey periods.
Official description
Data refer to the quarterly overall unemployment rate. 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.
- Last updated
- Coverage
- 1992-03-01 – 2026-06-01
- Rows
- 136
- Columns
- 4
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Values are summed where multiple rows share the same category.
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| Period | Residential Status | Seasonally Adj Unemp Rate | Non Seasonally Adj Unemp Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992-03 | overall | 1.800000 | 1.500000 |
| 1992-06 | overall | 1.800000 | 2.400000 |
| 1992-09 | overall | 2.000000 | 1.600000 |
| 1992-12 | overall | 1.600000 | 1.700000 |
| 1993-03 | overall | 1.500000 | 1.200000 |
| 1993-06 | overall | 1.800000 | 2.400000 |
| 1993-09 | overall | 1.800000 | 1.500000 |
| 1993-12 | overall | 1.600000 | 1.700000 |
| 1994-03 | overall | 1.700000 | 1.400000 |
| 1994-06 | overall | 1.600000 | 2.200000 |
| 1994-09 | overall | 1.800000 | 1.400000 |
| 1994-12 | overall | 1.800000 | 1.900000 |
| 1995-03 | overall | 1.700000 | 1.500000 |
| 1995-06 | overall | 1.900000 | 2.500000 |
| 1995-09 | overall | 1.600000 | 1.200000 |
| 1995-12 | overall | 1.700000 | 1.800000 |
| 1996-03 | overall | 1.800000 | 1.500000 |
| 1996-06 | overall | 1.800000 | 2.400000 |
| 1996-09 | overall | 1.500000 | 1.100000 |
| 1996-12 | overall | 1.500000 | 1.600000 |
| 1997-03 | overall | 1.400000 | 1.200000 |
| 1997-06 | overall | 1.400000 | 1.900000 |
| 1997-09 | overall | 1.400000 | 1.000000 |
| 1997-12 | overall | 1.500000 | 1.600000 |
| 1998-03 | overall | 1.700000 | 1.400000 |
Columns
| Column | Type | Categorical |
|---|---|---|
| Period | Month (YYYY-MM) | No |
| Residential Status | Text | Yes |
| Seasonally Adj Unemp Rate | Numeric (Percentage) | No |
| Non Seasonally Adj Unemp Rate | Numeric (Percentage) | No |