Industry
05 May 2025
Retail sales increased 1.1% in Mar 2025 compared to Mar 2024. Excluding motor vehicles, retail sales rose 0.7%. Sales of food & beverage services fell 2.8% in Mar 2025 compared to Mar 2024.
Reference
05 May 2025
Statistics Singapore Newsletter Issue 1, 2025 released.
Industry
05 May 2025
This article shares DOS’s experience in producing new data insights on enterprise characteristics through data integration of the integrated databases on enterprises and individuals.
Economy and Prices
05 May 2025
This article provides an overview of the Multifactor Productivity (MFP) concepts and methodology, and highlights key findings on the experimental MFP series.
Reference
05 May 2025
This article provides a brief overview of seasonal adjustment, outlines its methodology, and discusses the key challenges and intervention techniques in the seasonal adjustment of economic time series during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Reference
05 May 2025
This article provides an overview of DOS’s progress in using administrative data to produce statistics and data insights, and future plans to expand usage.
Households
05 May 2025
This article compares the expenditure patterns of married couple-based households with young children against resident households.
Industry
30 Apr 2025
8% of firms in the services sector are upbeat about business conditions while 25% foresee deteriorating business conditions, resulting in a net weighted balance of 17% of firms expecting a less favourable business outlook for the period of Apr – Sep 2025.
Industry
30 Apr 2025
13% of firms in the manufacturing sector expect business conditions to improve while 19% foresee weaker business outlook, resulting in a net weighted balance of 6% of firms anticipating a less favourable business situation for the period Apr – Sep 2025.
Trade and Investment
30 Apr 2025
Singapore’s foreign direct investment flows rose 5.6 per cent on a year-on-year basis to reach $192 bil in 2024.
Economy and Prices
29 Apr 2025
The Import, Export, Singapore Manufactured Products and Domestic Supply Price indices fell 1.3%, 1.2%, 2.2% and 1.9% respectively in Mar 2025 over Feb 2025.
Economy and Prices
28 Apr 2025
Employment (excluding Migrant Domestic Workers) increased 2,300 in 1Q 2025.