NUS Libraries: Statistics on Singapore: Mass Media & Culture

Statistics on Singapore

An annotated bibliography of sources

Mass Media & Culture

Adex report: product category [Advertising expenditure monitoring service].
Singapore: Survey Research Singapore. Annual. 1996-98.
HF5801 AR (HL Bound Periodicals)

See: Media index. 1995-

Advertising and media in Country Data. Global Marketing Information Database. London: Euromonitor.
Available on Digital Library

Click on Statistical Data in Digital Library. Click on GMID and select Country Data. Expand Advertising and Media to see the other data available and click to select them. Choose Singapore from Country/Region and select the years to view the data. Data available include advertising expenditure, newspapers, radio and TV licenses, Internet penetration, e-commerce like online shopping expenditure and online adspending.

Advertising trends in the economy, 1987-1992. Occasional paper series, no.15. Singapore : Department of Statistics, 1994.
HA1802 Ops 15 (CL Sing/Mal Coll, CL Main Shelves)

Analyses advertising receipts by industry, with breakdown for newspapers, periodical & books. Also has advertising expenditure by industry for 1992.

Arts & media in Singapore. 2nd ed.
Singapore : Ministry of Information and the Arts, 2000.
NX577.2 Art (CL Sing/Mal Coll, CL Main Shelves)

Includes circulation of local newspapers, number of accredited media agencies, transmission hours for television and radio, cinema attendance and capacity. It is the second edition of Arts, cultural & media scenes.
Also available on the Web at http://www.gov.sg/mita/bksams.htm.

Arts, cultural & media scenes. Singapore : Ministry of Information and the Arts, 1998.
NX577.2 Art (CL Sing/Mal Coll, CL Main Shelves)

Cultural, recreational & public safety. In Yearbook of statistics. Singapore : Department of Statistics.
HA1801 SYS (CL Sing/Mal Coll, CL Information Desk)

Give annual figures for cable vision subscribers, TV subscribers, cinema attendances, loan of library books, daily newspaper circulation. Also available on the Web at http://www.singstat.gov.sg/keystats/annual/yos.html

Goonasekera, Anura & Duncan Holaday (eds). Asian communication handbook. 2nd ed. Singapore : Asian Mass Communcation Research & Information Centre, 1998.
TK5102.3 Asi.As (CL Reference, CL Sing/Mal Coll)

Includes a country profile on Singapore, covering print media, broadcasting media, cinema, telecommunications and advertising. Most of the data is for 1995. First edition of the same title covers data for 1991.

Gopinathan S. ASEAN book scene: Singapore. In Books for all: proceedings of the ASEAN conference on book development. Edited by Sumangala Pillai. Kuala Lumpur: Perpustakaan Negara, 1997. pp. 61-69.

Has a table which gives book production in the four official languages of Singapore for various years from 1963 to 1995.

Media index.
Singapore: Survey Research Singapore. Annual. 1995-
HF5801 MI (HL Reference Office, HL Bound Periodicals)

Nanyang Siang Pau Singapore Ltd. Annual report.
Singapore: The Company. Annual. 1979/80-1980/81.
HD2769 *IN8 (CL Sing/Mal Coll)

Gives circulation or readership figures for the Chinese newspaper Nanyang Siang Pau, which was published until 15 March 1983 and subsequently merged with Sin Chew Jit Poh to become Lianhe Zaobao.

Sin Chew Jit Poh (Singapore). Annual report.
Singapore: The Company. Annual. 1977-1981.
HD2769 *IN47 (CL Sing/Mal Coll)

Gives charts on the circulation or readership of the Chinese newspaper Sin Chew Jit Poh, which was published until 15 March 1983 and subsequently merged with Nanyang Siang Pau to become Lianhe Zaobao.

Singapore Broadcasting Authority. Annual report.
Singapore: The Authority. Annual. 1994/96-
HE8689.912 SBA (CL Sing/Mal Coll)

Also available at http://www.sba.gov.sg/sba/a_arpublications.jsp

Singapore Broadcasting Corporation. Annual report.
Singapore: The Corporation. Annual. 1961-94.
HE8689.912 SBCA (CL Sing/Mal Coll)

Gives advertising expenditure on television, radio & periodicals. Includes average daily television & radio audience, distribution of prime time television audience and radio station listenership.

Singapore Press Holdings. Annual report.
Singapore: The Corporation. Annual. 1985-
HD2769 *IS55 (CL Sing/Mal Coll, HL Reference 1)

Gives circulation for all the newspapers published by SPH; The Straits Times, Berita Harian, The Business Times, The New Paper, Lianhe Zaobao. Also gives advertising market share by media, in newspapers, television, radio, periodicals.

Statistical tables on the printing & publishing industry in Singapore. 2nd ed. Singapore: Festival of Books Singapore Pte Ltd, 1986.
Z244.612 Sta (CL Reference 3, CL Sing/Mal Coll)

Gives number of establishments, workers, wages, costs of production in the printing and publishing industry. Has book production figures by language and subject; and number and circulation of newspapers and other periodicals. Provides details of establishments engaged in the retail trade of books, magazines and paper products. Also has data on the import and export of printed matter. Most of the data is for 1970 to 1983.

Tan, Yew Soon & Soh Yew Peng. The development of Singapore's modern media industry. Singapore: Times Academic Press, 1994.
P92.12 Tan (CL RBR, CL Sing/Mal Coll)

Collates data from various sources on the media industry. Includes circulation of newspapers, television & radio transmission hours & size of audience, number of cinemas with a profile of cinema-goers in 1991, and advertising spending by product category & medium. Included in the appendix are examples of advertising rates in different medium.