Revision To Unemployment Data
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The Manpower Research and Statistics Department has revised the coverage and estimation procedures used in the quarterly Labour Force Survey to yield more accurate estimates of unemployment obtained from the survey. As the Labour Force Survey is conducted on a representative sample of households in Singapore, its coverage excludes construction workers living on site and workers commuting from abroad to work in Singapore. To achieve full coverage of the total labour force in Singapore, the new methodology combines data on residents1 obtained from the survey with foreign workforce data compiled from work passes issued by the Ministry of Manpower.
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