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Written Answer by Mr Lim Swee Say, Minister for Manpower, to Parliamentary Question on Unemployed Singaporean Workers Who Gave Up Looking for Work

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Notice Paper No. 199 Of 2015 For The Sitting On 14 July 2015 Question No. 282 For Written Answer

MP: Mr Gerald Giam Yean Song

To ask the Minister for Manpower since the beginning of 2015 (a) how many unemployed Singaporean workers gave up looking for work; and (b) how this figure compares with the same period in 2014. 

Answer 

  1. The proportion of discouraged workers among the citizen labour force had remained low at 0.5% in 2013 and 20141.  These are individuals who were not actively looking for a job because they believed their job search would not yield results. 2014 is the latest data that is available.
1Source: Comprehensive Labour Force Survey, Manpower Research & Statistics Department, MOM.