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

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

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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

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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-Q1Factors Limiting Export Orders In Manufacturing - Total70
2003-Q1Price Competition (Compared With Overseas Competitors)35
2003-Q1Singapore Dollar Exchange0
2003-Q1Delivery Dates (Compared With Overseas Competitors)1
2003-Q1Factory Capacity0
2003-Q1Quota & Import Licence Restrictions1
2003-Q1Political Or Economic Conditions Abroad24
2003-Q1Other Factors Limiting Export Orders9
2003-Q1Firms With No Limiting Factors25
2003-Q1Not Applicable5

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Data type
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Description
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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

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Economic Development Board. (2017). Most Important Factors Limiting Export Orders (Forecast for Next 3 Mths), Total Mfg (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 20, 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)