Singapore - Labor Force Employment

For Singapore: labor force, unemployment and employment by industry. Annual from 1990.

Employment data comprise all persons in employment i.e. employees and the self-employed. However, it excludes men who are serving their two-year full-time national service liability in the Singapore Armed Forces, Police and Civil Defence Forces.

In Singapore, employment statistics are compiled from two major sources:

(1) Administrative records, where 

• local employee data are compiled from the Central Provident Fund (CPF) Board’s administrative records,  
• data on foreigners working in Singapore are compiled from administrative records of foreigners on valid work passes issued by the Ministry of Manpower, and  
• self-employed data are estimated from the Labour Force Survey.

(2) Comprehensive Labour Force Survey (LFS)

Industrial classification: SSIC, which is revised every five years.

Only seasonally adjusted figures are revised.

SSIC 2015 has 22 sections (numbered A to V), but labor data are typically reported as 10 industry branches which include single sections and aggregates. There are three residual categories that may appear, but are not always defined:

• Other goods, defined in Economic Survey of Singapore (MTI, 2010) as agriculture, fishery and quarrying.
• Other services, defined in (ibid) as utilities, sewerage and waste management.
• Other, defined in Employment Trend and Structure (MOM, 2004) as agriculture, fishery, quarrying and utilities. 

Some countries report a "total" which is actually "non-agricultural employment", but since agriculture accounts for only

At the source:

• Understanding statistics
• Employment - Introduction

At the IMF:

• Singapore - Labor market: Employment (SDDS entry)