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Collection: Business Expectations Of The Manufacturing Sector, Quarterly

Dataset: Business Expectations for the Next Three and Six Months, Manufacturing sub-clusters

Economy

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

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:09 SGT

EDB (Economic Development Board)

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_f9786adcee3f5a1562d733aa107f251c"
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 sub-clusters (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved December 28, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_f9786adcee3f5a1562d733aa107f251c/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)

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Economy

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

Last updated: 06 Jun 2024, 15:09 SGT

EDB (Economic Development Board)

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Data explorer

BusinessExpectationsfortheNextThreeandSixMonthsManufacturingsubclusters.csv (50.1K rows, 4.7 MB)

Quarter Quarter (Q)	Variables Text	Manufacturing clusters Text	Manufacturing sub-clusters Text	Net Weighted Balance Numeric
(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)0.0%	(Null)71.0%
1970-Q1	General Business Expectations (Forecast For Next 6 Months)	Electronics	Semiconductors	na
1970-Q1	General Business Expectations (Forecast For Next 6 Months)	Electronics	Computer Peripherals & Data Storage	na
1970-Q1	General Business Expectations (Forecast For Next 6 Months)	Electronics	Infocomms & Consumer Electronics	na
1970-Q1	General Business Expectations (Forecast For Next 6 Months)	Electronics	Other Electronic Modules & Components	na
1970-Q1	General Business Expectations (Forecast For Next 6 Months)	Chemicals	Petroleum	na
1970-Q1	General Business Expectations (Forecast For Next 6 Months)	Chemicals	Petrochemicals	na
1970-Q1	General Business Expectations (Forecast For Next 6 Months)	Chemicals	Specialty Chemicals	na
1970-Q1	General Business Expectations (Forecast For Next 6 Months)	Chemicals	Others	na
1970-Q1	General Business Expectations (Forecast For Next 6 Months)	Biomedical Manufacturing	Pharmaceuticals	na
1970-Q1	General Business Expectations (Forecast For Next 6 Months)	Biomedical Manufacturing	Medical Technology	na

Column legend

Title	Column name	Data type	Unit of measure	Description
Quarter	quarter	Quarter (Q)	-	-
Variables	level_1	Text	-	-
Manufacturing clusters	level_2	Text	-	-
Manufacturing sub-clusters	level_3	Text	-	-
Net Weighted Balance	value	Numeric	Net 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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