E M conomic Statistics in alaysia

Economic Statistics in Malaysia1
National Statistical Website: http://www.statistics.gov.my
World Bank Economic Grouping: Upper middle-income
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Population (millions, 2014): 30.2
GDP per capita (2005 PPP, 2012): 14,822
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Advocacy
Coordination
▪ Agency involved in economic statistics:
○ Department of Statistics Malaysia
▪ Strategic Plan being implemented
▪ Statistical law protects confidentiality and
independence of statistical information
▪ Centralized statistical system
○ Responsibilities are clearly defined for agencies
involved in the production of the Core Set
○ Plans are currently being implemented to improve
coordination of production of economic statistics
▪ Publication policies in place and available to users/staff
▪ Contact points publicized for each statistical subject
area
▪ User consultations are organized by producers of
economic statistics
▪ Awareness of relevance, among users, of official
statistics to economic policy making is considered
sufficient and there are activities in place to improve
upon it
International Collaboration
▪ Interested in participating in RPES as both a provider
and a recipient of technical assistance
▪ Partnered with SESRIC and SIAP
▪ Participant in International Comparison Programme for
calculating purchasing power parities
Statistical Infrastructure
Key Collections/Compilations
Frequency
Timeliness
National Accounts
Quarterly
7 weeks
Balance of Payments
Quarterly
7 weeks
Labour Force Survey
Monthly
2 months
Household Income/Expenditure Survey
Every 2.5 years
12 months
Enterprise/Establishment Survey
Monthly
6 weeks
Population Census
Every 10 years
No Response
Economic Census
Every 5 years
12 months
Agricultural Census
Every 10 years
No Response
Standards/Classifications
- SNA 1993 (2008 planned)
- ISIC Rev. 4
- CPC ver. 2
- COICOP
- COFOG
- Plans to make BoP
coherent with BPM6
× Quality assessment framework is not available but implementation is planned
× Centralized national metadata repository is not available
Centralized business register is currently used for multiple statistical products
Establishing methods for identifying ‘births’ and ‘deaths’ of businesses
IT systems are considered adequate for producing the Core Set of Economic Statistics
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This national summary was prepared by ESCAP Statistics Division in November, 2013. Results of the Capacity Screening questionnaire were received
in November, 2013 from 50 of the 58 member countries who were contacted. Further information on RPES and the Core Set is available here:
http://www.unescap.org/official-documents/committee-on-statistics/session/2
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ESCAP Statistical Yearbook for Asia and the Pacific 2014: http://www.unescap.org/resources/statistical-yearbook-asia-and-pacific-2014
Technical Skills
Human resources are considered adequate for producing the Core Set
Documentation of internal processes and staff manuals are available
Reported frequencies for indicators in the Core Set compared to RPES recommendations
Table Legend
Meet or Exceed Recommendations
● Below Recommendations
Core Indicator
Price and Costs
Demand and Output
Income and Wealth
× Unavailable or No Response
Reported Freq.
RPES recommendations
Consumer price index (CPI)
Weekly
Quarterly
Producer price index (PPI)
Monthly
Quarterly
Commodity price index
Monthly
Monthly
External merchandise trade price indices
Monthly
Monthly
Wages / Earnings data
Monthly
Quarterly
Labour costs index / Wage index
Ad-hoc
Quarterly
●
GDP (production) nominal and real
Quarterly
Quarterly
GDP (expenditure) nominal and real
Quarterly
Quarterly
External trade – merchandise
Monthly
Monthly
External trade – services
Quarterly
Quarterly
Short-term indicator (STI) - industry output
Monthly
Quarterly
STI – services output
Quarterly
Quarterly
STI – consumer demand
Quarterly
Quarterly
STI – fixed investment
Quarterly
Quarterly
STI – inventories
Monthly
Quarterly
Economy structure statistics
Annually
Every 5 years
Productivity
Annually
Annually
Integrated national accounts
Annually
Annually
Institutional sector accounts
Annually
Annually
Balance of payments (BOP)
Quarterly
Quarterly
International investment position (IIP)
Annually
Annually
External debt
Quarterly
Quarterly
Income distribution
Ad-hoc
Every 5 years
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Assets / liabilities of depository corporations
Weekly
Monthly
Broad money and credit aggregates
Weekly
Monthly
Interest rate statistics
Daily
Monthly
General government operations
Quarterly
Quarterly
General government debt
Quarterly
Quarterly
Money and Banking
Government
Labour supply and demand
Quarterly
Annually
Labour Market
Hours worked
Monthly
Quarterly
Natural Resources and
Environment
Natural resources
Unavailable
Annually
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Summary of Responses to all 31 Indicators in the Core Set (comparison of two columns in the table above)
Meet or Exceed Recommendations
Below Recommendations
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Unavailable or No Response
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