Number of Long-Term Unemployed Residents, Annual

• Residents refer to Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents.
• Long-term unemployed refers to persons aged fifteen years and over who have been unemployed for at least 25 weeks.
• Annual figures are the simple averages of the non-seasonally adjusted unemployment figures obtained at quarterly intervals.
• Annual average data for 2000 are not available as data on duration of unemployment was not collected in the Population Census 2000 (June).

Source: Labour Force Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM, except data for June 1995, and June 2005, which are from the General Household Surveys 1995 & 2005 conducted by Department of Statistics, Ministry of Trade and Industry.