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Business Expectations Of The Manufacturing Sector, Quarterly

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

Economy

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

Updated 12 months ago

EDB (Economic Development Board)

Numbers Employed (Forecast for Next 3 Months), by Manufacturing clusters

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BusinessExpectationsfortheNextThreeandSixMonthsManufacturingclusters.csv (16.7K rows, 1.3 MB)

Quarter
Quarter (Q)
Variables
Text
Manufacturing Clusters
Text
Net Weighted Balance
Numeric
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)0.0%
(Null)69.3%
1970-Q1General Business Expectations (Forecast For Next 6 Months)Electronicsna
1970-Q1General Business Expectations (Forecast For Next 6 Months)Chemicalsna
1970-Q1General Business Expectations (Forecast For Next 6 Months)Biomedical Manufacturingna
1970-Q1General Business Expectations (Forecast For Next 6 Months)Precision Engineeringna
1970-Q1General Business Expectations (Forecast For Next 6 Months)Transport Engineeringna
1970-Q1General Business Expectations (Forecast For Next 6 Months)General Manufacturing Industriesna
1970-Q1Numbers Employed (Forecast For Next Quarter)Electronicsna
1970-Q1Numbers Employed (Forecast For Next Quarter)Chemicalsna
1970-Q1Numbers Employed (Forecast For Next Quarter)Biomedical Manufacturingna
1970-Q1Numbers Employed (Forecast For Next Quarter)Precision Engineeringna

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Title
Column name
Data type
Unit of measure
Description
QuarterquarterQuarter (Q)--
Variableslevel_1Text--
Manufacturing Clusterslevel_2Text--
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

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation. Try it out on your browser to see the response schema.

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_b53bf671e2e03776f5f7e8e95ae9b504"
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, Manufacturing clusters (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved May 23, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_b53bf671e2e03776f5f7e8e95ae9b504/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)