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Collection: Business Expectations Of The Manufacturing Sector - Most Important Factors Limiting Export Orders, Quarterly

Dataset: Most Important Factors Limiting Export Orders (Forecast for Next 3 Mths), Total Mfg

Economy

Most Important Factors Limiting Export Orders (Forecast for Next 3 Mths), Total Mfg

Data from Jan 2003 to Mar 2019

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:23 SGT

EDB (Economic Development Board)

Percentage by Quarter

Data explorer

MostImportantFactorsLimitingExportOrdersForecastforNext3MthsTotalMfg.csv (650 rows, 29.8 KB)

Quarter Quarter (Q)	Most Important Factors Limiting Export Orders Text	Percentage Numeric (Percentage)
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2003-Q1	Factors Limiting Export Orders In Manufacturing - Total	70
2003-Q1	Price Competition (Compared With Overseas Competitors)	35
2003-Q1	Singapore Dollar Exchange	0
2003-Q1	Delivery Dates (Compared With Overseas Competitors)	1
2003-Q1	Factory Capacity	0
2003-Q1	Quota & Import Licence Restrictions	1
2003-Q1	Political Or Economic Conditions Abroad	24
2003-Q1	Other Factors Limiting Export Orders	9
2003-Q1	Firms With No Limiting Factors	25
2003-Q1	Not Applicable	5

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Quarter	quarter	Quarter (Q)	-	-
Most Important Factors Limiting Export Orders	level_1	Text	-	-
Percentage	value	Numeric (Percentage)	-	-

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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_100696c30736d0db2992a2fdeaea6a10"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Economic Development Board. (2017). Most Important Factors Limiting Export Orders (Forecast for Next 3 Mths), Total Mfg (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved December 16, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_100696c30736d0db2992a2fdeaea6a10/view

About this dataset

Contact

rsu@edb.gov.sg

Created on

04 Jan 2017

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

EDB (Economic Development Board)