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Research and Development Expenditure by Sector, Annual

Data from Jan 1990 to Dec 2018Updated 9 months ago

A*STAR (Agency For Science, Technology and Research)

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ResearchandDevelopmentExpenditurebySectorAnnual.csv (58 rows, 1.2 KB)

Year Year (YYYY)	Sector Text	Rnd expenditure Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%
1990	Private	309.5
1991	Private	442
1992	Private	577.62
1993	Private	618.58
1994	Private	736.23
1995	Private	881.37
1996	Private	1133.42
1997	Private	1314.52
1998	Private	1536.1
1999	Private	1670.86

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Year	year	Year (YYYY)	-	-
Sector	sector	Text	-	-
Rnd expenditure	rnd_expenditure	Numeric	S$ Millions	-

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import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_a1f9b0bcf01805707d28ad1903869c9c"
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.

Agency For Science, Technology and Research. (2016). Research and Development Expenditure by Sector, Annual (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved March 13, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_a1f9b0bcf01805707d28ad1903869c9c/view

About this dataset

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Created on

06 Oct 2016

Licence

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

Agency

A*STAR (Agency For Science, Technology and Research)