Ministry of Manpower Unemployment Dashboard

Posted by CH Leong on Thursday, September 17, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

MOM’s website (www.mom.gov.sg) contains a wealth of labor data. An example is on unemployment rates in Singapore. I took two sets of data: Unemployment Rate (Seasonally Adjusted) & Resident Long-Term Unemployment Rate (Non-Seasonally Adjusted).

They look like this. As individual charts, they may not present a strong overall picture.

Ministry of Manpower Unemployment charts

I redesigned the presentation into a dashboard using Excel 2003. You can download a copy here: Excel Productivity Cafe Files.

The effect of a well designed dashboard is you are able to survey more data in a glance, and make quicker assessments for faster decisions. I did this dashboard in 20mins, you can do it too. You can view more details about our Dashboarding Course here.

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