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Business Expectations Of The Manufacturing Sector, Quarterly

Business Expectations for the Next Three and Six Months, Total Manufacturing

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Business Expectations for the Next Three and Six Months, Total Manufacturing

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:29 SGT

EDB (Economic Development Board)

Output (Forecast for Next 3 Months), Total Manufacturing

Data explorer

BusinessExpectationsfortheNextThreeandSixMonthsTotalManufacturing.csv (2.8K rows, 162.2 KB)

Quarter
Quarter (Q)
Variables
Text
Net Weighted Balance
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)16.2%
1970-Q1General Business Expectations (Forecast For Next 6 Months)47
1970-Q1Numbers Employed (Forecast For Next Quarter)na
1970-Q1Overtime (Forecast For Next Quarter)na
1970-Q1Output (Forecast For Next Quarter)na
1970-Q1Total New Orders Received (Forecast For Next Quarter)na
1970-Q1Domestic Orders (Forecast For Next Quarter)na
1970-Q1Export Orders (Forecast For Next Quarter)na
1970-Q1Deliveries In Singapore (Forecast For Next Quarter)na
1970-Q1Deliveries Overseas (Forecast For Next Quarter)na
1970-Q1Stocks Of Raw Materials (Forecast For Next Quarter)na

Column legend

Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
QuarterquarterQuarter (Q)--
Variableslevel_1Text-Variables by total manufacturing
Net Weighted BalancevalueNumericNet Weighted Balance"Net weighted balance" is the difference between the weighted percentage of 'up' responses and the weighted percentage of 'down' responses.
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Sample OpenAPI query

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_2f4efbe67a5f78b6092628bfde2a1512"
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). Business Expectations for the Next Three and Six Months, Total Manufacturing (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved June 18, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_2f4efbe67a5f78b6092628bfde2a1512/view

About this dataset

Contact

quin_chong@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)