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Economy

Government Expenditure by Type

Updated 6 months ago

MOF (Ministry of Finance)

Total Expenditure comprises Operating Expenditure and Development Expenditure. Development Expenditure excludes land-related expenditure from FY2001.

Expenditure by Type

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GovernmentExpenditurebyType.csv (224 rows, 17.5 KB)

Financial Year Numeric	Actual/Revised/Estimated Text	Type Text	Category Text	Class Text	Amount Numeric
(Null)0.0% 19973.6% 19983.6% 19993.6% 20003.6%	(Null)0.0% Actual92.9% Revised3.6% Estimated3.6%	(Null)0.0% Operating75.0% Development25.0%	(Null)0.0% Transfers37.5% Running Cost37.5% Development Expenditure25.0%	(Null)0.0% Social Transfers12.5% Government Development12.5% Expenditure on Manpower12.5% Other Operating Expenditure12.5%	(Null)0.0%
1997	Actual	Development	Development Expenditure	Government Development	5326
1998	Actual	Development	Development Expenditure	Government Development	6981
1999	Actual	Development	Development Expenditure	Government Development	6369
2000	Actual	Development	Development Expenditure	Government Development	5464
2001	Actual	Development	Development Expenditure	Government Development	4503
2002	Actual	Development	Development Expenditure	Government Development	3962
2003	Actual	Development	Development Expenditure	Government Development	4221
2004	Actual	Development	Development Expenditure	Government Development	4349
2005	Actual	Development	Development Expenditure	Government Development	3522
2006	Actual	Development	Development Expenditure	Government Development	2760

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Financial Year	financial_year	Numeric	-	-
Actual/Revised/Estimated	actual_revised_estimated	Text	-	The data for the latest financial year is estimated, while that for the previous year is revised.
Type	type	Text	-	-
Category	category	Text	-	-
Class	class	Text	-	-
Amount	amount	Numeric	-	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_6a804a6860b5c51af08df679a71bc190"
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.

Ministry of Finance. (2016). Government Expenditure by Type (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 22, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_6a804a6860b5c51af08df679a71bc190/view

About this dataset

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mof_qsm@mof.gov.sg

Created on

24 Mar 2016

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

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MOF (Ministry of Finance)

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