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Business Expectations Of The Manufacturing Sector, Quarterly

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

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

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 14:55 SGT

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

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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 July 6, 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)