Question:
Written answer :
1. The Department of Statistics (DOS) conducts regular reviews of
the data series that it publishes, and may decide to stop the publication of
those which are assessed to have low demand.
2. In the case of the indigenous GDP and GNI series, DOS decided
to stop publishing them with effect from the 2013 Yearbook of Statistics
Singapore as there was a lack of public interest in the two series. In
particular, there were no online downloads of the series nor specific queries
on the series from the public in the years leading up to the decision to stop
the publication of the series.
3. Nonetheless, DOS has continued to compile the two series
internally and will provide them to users on request.