Unemployment

1. Data are sourced from the Labour Force Survey except for selected periods, which use data from the General Household Survey (for June 2005) and Population Census (for June 2000) as the Labour Force Survey was not conducted in these periods.
2. The seasonally adjusted figures are derived using X-12 ARIMA to remove the seasonal influences in the data series. The seasonally adjusted unemployment figures are subject to annual revisions when the latest set of seasonal factors is updated, taking into account observations for the latest available year.
3. Annual figures are the simple averages of the non-seasonally adjusted unemployment figures obtained at quarterly intervals.
4. Residents refer to Singapore citizens and Singapore Permanent Residents.
5. Long-term unemployed refers to persons aged fifteen years and over who have been unemployed for 25 weeks or more.
6. Long-term unemployment rate is defined as the percentage of long-term unemployed persons to economically active persons.
7. p = Preliminary
8. n.a. = Not available

Overall Unemployment Rate and Number
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Unemployment Rate (Seasonally Adjusted)
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Source

Labour Force Survey, MOM

Coverage

The survey covers private households on the main island of Singapore. It excludes workers living in construction worksites, dormitories and workers' quarters at the workplace and persons commuting from abroad to work in Singapore. Estimates of the total labour force are derived by combining data on residents (also known as locals) obtained from the survey with foreign workforce data compiled from administrative records.

Concepts and Definitions

Labour Force
This refers to persons aged 15 years and over who are either employed (i.e. working) or unemployed (i.e. available and actively looking for work) during the reference period. This group is also known as the economically active population.

Educational Attainment
This refers to the highest level or standard which a person has passed or attained either through attendance at an institution of learning or through correspondence or self-study.

Reference Period
This refers to the week preceding the date of the survey interview.

Employed Persons
This refers to persons aged 15 years and over who, during the reference period:

• Work for one hour or more either for pay, profit or family gains; or
• Have a job or business to return to but are temporarily absent because of illness, injury, breakdown of machinery at workplace, labour management dispute or other reasons.

Members of the Singapore Armed Forces including full-time National Servicemen are included in the persons employed, unless otherwise specified.

 

Unemployed Persons
This refers to persons aged fifteen years and over who are not working but are available for work and are actively looking for a job during the reference period. They include persons who are not working but are taking steps to start their own business or taking up a new job after the reference period.

Unemployment Rate
This is defined as the percentage of unemployed persons to eonomically active persons.

Duration of Unemployment
This refers to the median number of complete weeks between the date when action was first taken to look for a job and the date of the survey interview.

Long-term Unemployed Persons
This refers to persons aged fifteen years and over who have been unemployed for 25 weeks or more.

Long-term Unemployment Rate
This is defined as the percentage of long-term unemployed persons to economically active persons.