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OverseasVisitorsSurveyVisitorsProfileDataPurposeofVisit.csv (46 rows, 2.2 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Region Text	Country of Residence Text	Leisure (Holiday & VFR) Numeric (Percentage)	Holiday Numeric (Percentage)	Visit Friends / Relatives (VFR) Numeric (Percentage)	Business ( General business purpose & MICE) Numeric (Percentage)	General business purpose Numeric (Percentage)	MICE (%) Numeric (Percentage)	Others Numeric (Percentage)	Not stated Numeric (Percentage)
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)2.2%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
2013	TOTAL	TOTAL	49	36	14	23	20	3	17	11
2013	SOUTHEAST ASIA	INDONESIA	52	35	18	16	13	3	23	9
2013	SOUTHEAST ASIA	MALAYSIA	43	19	24	36	32	4	10	10
2013	SOUTHEAST ASIA	PHILIP PINES	60	35	25	17	14	3	12	11
2013	SOUTHEAST ASIA	THAI LAND	40	26	14	41	34	6	11	8
2013	SOUTHEAST ASIA	VIET NAM	47	31	16	28	26	3	13	11
2013	NORTH ASIA	CHINA	56	40	15	26	22	3	12	7
2013	NORTH ASIA	TAIWAN	46	39	7	32	26	6	12	11
2013	NORTH ASIA	HONG KONG	44	35	9	37	35	2	5	14
2013	NORTH ASIA	JAPAN	49	44	5	34	33	1	7	9

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Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	period	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Region	region	Text	-	-
Country of Residence	cor	Text	-	All visitors are classified by country of residence unless otherwise stated. Total international visitor arrivals include all visitors coming by air and sea and non-Malaysian citizens coming by land.
Leisure (Holiday & VFR)	leisure	Numeric (Percentage)	-	Figures exclude FORMULA 1™ visitors’ profile.
Holiday	holiday	Numeric (Percentage)	-	Figures exclude FORMULA 1™ visitors’ profile.
Visit Friends / Relatives (VFR)	vfr	Numeric (Percentage)	-	Figures exclude FORMULA 1™ visitors’ profile.
Business ( General business purpose & MICE)	business	Numeric (Percentage)	-	Includes persons accompanying visitors whose purpose of visit is 'Business'. Figures exclude FORMULA 1™ visitors’ profile.
General business purpose	general_business_purpose	Numeric (Percentage)	-	Visitor arrivals split by ‘General business’ and ‘MICE’ for Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa should be used with caution, due to small sample sizes from these countries. Figures exclude FORMULA 1™ visitors’ profile.
MICE (%)	mice	Numeric (Percentage)	-	Visitor arrivals split by ‘General business’ and ‘MICE’ for Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa should be used with caution, due to small sample sizes from these countries. Figures exclude FORMULA 1™ visitors’ profile.
Others	others	Numeric (Percentage)	-	Figures exclude FORMULA 1™ visitors’ profile.
Not stated	not_stated	Numeric (Percentage)	-	Figures exclude FORMULA 1™ visitors’ profile.

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_7c25427c8ca596daa629d88ee3dd3917"
url = "https://data.gov.sg/api/action/datastore_search?resource_id="  + dataset_id 
        
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.json())

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Singapore Tourism Board. (2016). Overseas Visitors Survey Visitors' Profile Data - Purpose of Visit (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 23, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_7c25427c8ca596daa629d88ee3dd3917/view

Overseas Visitors Survey Visitors' Profile Data - Purpose of Visit

Leisure holiday vfr, Holiday, Visit friends relatives vfr, Business general business purpose mice, General business purpose, Mice, Others by Year

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