Dbank is a network-ready system for time series and cross-sectional data that runs under Microsoft Windows. Dbank is accessible on NUSNET-II. You will need to go Windows Shopping and buy Dbank. This automatically connects you to the following time-series databases:
CITIBASE.MDB contains over 6,000 time-series on the US macro economy covering 1947-1994. The databank contains annual, quarterly and monthly statistics on population, gross domestic product, money supply, interest rates and numerous balance of payments items. The data is updated quarterly.
IFS.MDB has the data from the International Financial Statistics (IFS), a standard source of international statistics for all aspects of international and domestic finance. It contains, for over 2250 countries and regions (including Singapore), timely data on exchange rates, international transactions, government accounts and national income accounts. The data bank contains nearly 65000 time-series of annual, quarterly and monthly frequencies. IFS is updated quarterly.
PENNWORLD.MDB contains the Penn World Table (Mark 5) which has data for 150 countries (including Singapore), and provides 27 time-series is comparable across countries, thereby making the data bank a great platform for meaningful cross-country comparisons.
FDB.MDB contains a subset of the Faculty of Business Administration's Financial Database on the Singapore Stock Exchange. Daily time-series data on 50 major counters and stock indices are provided, including the share price (high, low, and close) and volume traded.