Transcript Informal Sector In Malaysia

10 JUNE 2009
RAZAMAN RIDZUAN
&
SALMIAH PONGGOT
DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS, MALAYSIA
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3 Programmes
19 Divisions
14 State Offices
Please refer to attachment 1
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36 Officers
57 Supporting Staff
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No specific survey on informal sector and
estimated using an indirect method.
Using Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and
Mixed Income (MI).
- ratio of MI to GDP provide estimates of the
contribution of informal sector to GDP.
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Mixed
Income (MI)
Gross
Domestic
Product
(GDP)
% (MI)/(GDP)
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
37,212
33,407
43,270
49,943
43,652
57,454
355,138
349,723
374,802
415,065
488,359
535,945
10.5
9.6
11.5
10.2
8.9
10.7
Source: Distribution and Use of Income Accounts and Capital Account.
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 Pre-2004 No official information on informal
sector.
 2004 Pioneer study was done for testing the
data collection method.
 2006 Pilot test covers the whole of Malaysia.
(Aug,Sept,Oct).
 Informal Sector Survey will be undertaken
regularly starting August 2009.
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Not registered with Companies Commission
of Malaysia;
All or at least one product of services is for sale or barter
transaction;
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Employs 10 workers or less and workers are
not covered by social security; and
Involves in non agricultural activities.
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Concept & Approach
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Informal sector concept is based on the
concept accepted by the 15th I ICLS 1993 and
17th ICLS 2001 with reference made to SNA
1993.
Using Household Approach.
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Scope & Coverage
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Geographically covers urban & rural in each
state in Malaysia.
Respondent s are those who reside
permanently in private dwelling, ≥ 15 years
age group, working in non-agriculture sector
and not working with the government.
Covered 3,168 enumeration blocks
(approximately 25,344 households).
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Region
No. of Samples
No. Involved in
Informal Sector
%
Peninsular Malaysia
20,267
2,894
14.3
Northern
5,979
899
15.0
Eastern
3,436
783
22.8
Southern
5,369
690
12.9
Middle
5,483
522
9.5
East Malaysia
3,119
432
13.9
Sabah
1,610
226
14.0
Sarawak
1,509
206
13.7
MALAYSIA
23,386
3,326
14.2
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Not registered
Often invisible – home-based activities
Often small scale but large in numbers
Mobile
Often no proper account is kept
Open and close quickly, frequently
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Informal Sector Survey will be undertaken
regularly as part of a module under LFS.
With the availability of regular data, NA will
attempt to estimate the contribution of
informal sector to GDP on annual basis.
Apply the estimation of informal sector by
using Labor Input Method (LIM).
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