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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-Q1	General Business Expectations (Forecast For Next 6 Months)	47
1970-Q1	Numbers Employed (Forecast For Next Quarter)	na
1970-Q1	Overtime (Forecast For Next Quarter)	na
1970-Q1	Output (Forecast For Next Quarter)	na
1970-Q1	Total New Orders Received (Forecast For Next Quarter)	na
1970-Q1	Domestic Orders (Forecast For Next Quarter)	na
1970-Q1	Export Orders (Forecast For Next Quarter)	na
1970-Q1	Deliveries In Singapore (Forecast For Next Quarter)	na
1970-Q1	Deliveries Overseas (Forecast For Next Quarter)	na
1970-Q1	Stocks Of Raw Materials (Forecast For Next Quarter)	na

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Quarter	quarter	Quarter (Q)	-	-
Variables	level_1	Text	-	Variables by total manufacturing
Net Weighted Balance	value	Numeric	Net 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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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

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Economic Development Board. (2017). Business Expectations for the Next Three and Six Months, Total Manufacturing (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 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)